Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Meteor Showers

[@s.p.7313]

Only on star talk, on an episode titled meteor showers, would I learn about how insects die before they splat on the windshield. Thank you for wandering on random tangents, Chuck!

[@maartendas1358]

It’s actually quite profound to consider how the tiny bugs on Earth and the meteors far away in space are somehow all connected :)

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I'm just a splatter on the windshield of life... ;o) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4fOZ5t3g89_m7c

[@SettaXY]

Maaan. Never fails us.

[@kkgc5760]

chuck is probably the type of person that would die from laughing at his own joke, everytime hes on startalk hes always on the brink of tears XD

[@rolando2395]

He would fake die.. because he fake laughs at his lame jokes... if you even want to call them "jokes" Personally I think HE is the joke

[@arjunnambiar9395]

@@rolando2395 Woaah Woaah ease on the toxicity bro. The environmentalists can't find a way to dispose all of em. Don't take it personally 😉

[@lesliecolonello9320]

Harsh

[@MrSkinkarde]

And he is funny zero percent

[@kkgc5760]

@@rolando2395 what the heck? Maybe you are missing the point of this light hearted show

[@justincmull]

Thank you Dr. deGrasse Tyson and Mr. Nice for inspiring me to get up early this morning and hike up to a park that is dark enough to catch the meteor display. As I saw the sparks of light emanating from Pollux and Castor, I was remembering listening to you guys sharing your love and knowledge of the celestial. The experience of staring up at the night sky and watching the Geminid meteor shower awakened the part of my brain millennia in the making. For a couple of hours, all temporal troubles seemed much further away than the magic arcs of cascading light brought about by space particles ending their journey across our solar system.

[@jasonwebb1882]

I wished I could meet these 2 men. I would shake their hands and thank them for all of the time that they take out each day. They have made learning fun again for me. Lol. At 45yrs old and my kids learning new stuff that has been changed from when I went to school. It's hard for me to separate what I was taught to what's being taught today. Lol. Back when I went to school, dinosaurs did NOT have feathers. Jupiter had the most most moons of any other planet. Pluto was a planet. Lol. There are so many things that have changed over the years, it's really crazy to think about.

[@donaldpype7018]

Near face object Nice Nice.

[@corporateopsgaming]

All my life I’ve been watching meteors sling across the sky and I finally recorded my first meteor Tuesday around 1am. It’s such a dangerous yet beautiful sight to see. Thank you Neil and Chuck for the education and entertainment

[@JSSTyger]

I saw one scorch the sky a few miles overhead abt a month ago.

[@Wolf.51.50]

This is one of the best Star Talk episodes. I was laughing hard and learning hard. Thanks both of you :-)

[@lonniemoseley]

Wolfeddie, you need to see the one on the Moon where we were worried that Neil was going to have a heart attack laughing so much at Chuck!

[@Wolf.51.50]

@@lonniemoseley Yeah, I saw that episode. It's brilliant.

[@sjab5987]

Near-Face Object 😂😂🤣 one of the funniest thing I've heard in a long time thanks Chuck

[@tmeyer2022]

Most of what you are presenting are things we should have learned in elementrary school (had we been paying attention.) You and Chuck make this subject matter fresh again. Thanks!

[@markustenghamn4475]

I blame the bullies :)

[@EduardoLobatoDJ]

Dr. Tyson got a bit of a slip at 3:27. He said "30.000 km/s", but Earth moves at 30.000 m/s around the sun.

[@NanocDark99]

So are the meteroits stand still in the cosmos but the earth is hitting them?

[@NanocDark99]

What i also do not understand is, if the meteorits stand still and the earth hits them with 30km/s then the meteroits should only come from one and the same direction everytime. But they xome from all directions.... how? When the earth is not flying to the right, then the meteorits should only come from the left. I dont get this...

[@nicholasjensen8016]

I once saw a meteor go though the atmosphere but instead of streaking across the sky it was just a quick bright flash at a single spot in the sky right above me which makes me believe it was heading straight down at us. I am thankful for the atmosphere that it stopped it from hitting our summer house lol.

[@Murker_Mike]

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[@Michael_Schofield]

@@Murker_Mike fermamyass

[@JSSTyger]

God used his fly swatter and saved the day.

[@BattleFalcon]

Would just like to mention that 18 miles per second is quite a lot different from 30.000 kilometers per second. By about 3 orders of magnitude, so 30.000 meters or 30 km per second is about right.

[@NanocDark99]

I didnt quite get that in the video, you might want to explain me again. Is the earth rotating at that speed and the meteors stand basicly still in the cosmos while the earth hits them at 30km/s or are the meteors traveling at 30km/s trouh the kosmos?

[@travis303]

When they were talking about bullies, it reminded me of when I was a kid, but also that sounded so much like "Back in my daaaay" lol

[@judethaddeus9856]

If it reminded you of when you were a child (a « kid » is a baby goat) it was « back in my day »-esque.. unless you’re a child now

[@travis303]

@@judethaddeus9856 To be honest it has been so long since I have seen this video I don't even remember what they were saying about bullies that made me say that, haha

[@marcello234]

"Best time for watching meteor showers is after midnight, laying on your lawn sipping a drink". December is the PERFECT time when you're in Australia.

[@brianrivers6947]

I love this show! These two fit so great together a natural chemistry

[@matttrophy1]

I love learning something new with every video from you.

[@C-LOS420]

I look forward to hearing and watching you guys when possible. Education comes in different forms

[@MrSkinkarde]

Forms come in containers

[@AnuragPandey2910]

@@MrSkinkarde containers come in shapes

[@Vemfanerdu]

@@AnuragPandey2910 Shapes come in geometry

[@AnuragPandey2910]

@@Vemfanerdu Geometry comes in mathematics

[@Vemfanerdu]

@@AnuragPandey2910 mathematics comes in school

[@JasonB808]

I work late at night, a few times when I was in the parking lot, I saw a very bright meteor streaking through the sky. Usually I can barely see anything but the brightest stars or planets because the lights around are so bright. It just makes those meteors I saw so amazing.

[@jasonwebb1882]

My dad grew up in the small town Named West Tx. I said something along time ago about seeing a meteor shower and he told me a story. Now this story sounded to me like a tall tale. He said back when he was in elementary school he walked out of the house and the sky looked like it was raining shooting stars. He compared it to the end of the movie Independence Day when Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum blew up the mother ship. Well at that time I had never heard of the term meteor storm before. All I can say is that this would have happened in the early 1950's. I wished I could ask him but unfortunately I lost the old man on Oct 14th 2019 at 10:45am. This was something that I don't ever want to do again. That is pull the plug on another loved one. Anyway I wish that I could get this confirmed of denied. Thanks everyone and I wish you all very well.

[@Damnitjim7]

Very possible, 56' was meteor shower over Indian Ocean, and in 66' Leonid meteor storm, which on a clear night in Texas with new moon I imagine would be visible and awe inspiring

[@jakegrow7048]

I was just on vacation with some friends down in Buda, Texas. We were in the hot tube hanging out watching this metor shower and debating every aspect of metors. Im so glad this video answered EVERYTHING we were all wrong about metors! LOL

[@C-LOS420]

Thanks!

[@C-LOS420]

I wish I had you two guys as my high school teachers lol

[@The.Real.Hemingway]

Glad I got to see this, very informative.

[@Dave-ct1jk]

Last night I was out, wrapped up in a blanket watching the meteor shower after work. Great show!

[@ManicYouniverse]

3:23 18 m/s = 30 000 km/s? 3:27 That was lovely! ;) The metric system does make you faster ;)

[@Olaf_Schwandt]

I love the funny conversations and the interesting explainings

[@LOTUSELISE340R]

Chuck just killin me' with his quick wit.

[@lutherlewis9681]

I saw that once and it took a minute for me and everyone around me to realize that it was a meteorite coming straight at us. A very cool thing to witness.

[@Amprobiuss]

Chuck was on fire this episode..loved it as always

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

I'm 31 and I remember bullying in school wasn't just a "part of life," it was one of the most common tropes in kids movies and shows when I was growing up. In fact the whole "anti bullying movement" didn't really start where I live until a couple years before I graduated highschool. Just a little over a decade ago. Zoomers don't know how good they have it.

[@daniell7323]

I had one encounter, last year, with a meteor heading toward us, I had the time to point at it, scream it's coming, and start running(all of this took about 7 seconds). All this while my friends saw it only dezintegrate and then laughed at me for being scared of a "falling star"

[@sweetpeasbackyardgarden1236]

You guys have too much fun. I love learning like this.

[@nevil_97]

Great background need to see more variety of this.🌠

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

My family used to have "Wishing Parties" on the roof every year during meteor showers. It started in Nevada. Where there were NO city lights. We didn't need to be on the roof then. We'd lay out on the trampoline and make wishes all night. LOVED it!

[@ballpark2481]

Star talk never misses

[@m.t.o.9035]

Neil has a knack for this...Down to earth approach. Lol

[@Ravenzpeak]

"user friendly meteor shower"....LOL - I love it!

[@literallyh3093]

YAY, I really wanted a video bout meteor showers.

[@WestExplainsBest]

TIL that meteors are the earth equivalent of bugs splattering on the windshield of your car, where Earth is the car.

[@djinn4895]

14:45 "take it easy Chicken Little" omg I'm wheezing Thank you for this fantastic session about meteor showers by the way! Just in time to explain the science behind the majestic Geminids these days on the December night sky Wish it happened during New Moon though, thanks much you Moon

[@antoniojones6256]

I have a question for Tyson & Nice: how much mass would Earth have to gain, through daily/weekly/etc. impacts with asteroids or meteorites, in order to increase or shift the planet to a greater average orbital radius?

[@mrgreenfull3897]

Unreachable.. Earth gets only around 50 metric tons of space particles or more daily so, it's like you get a nano-particle daily on your body expecting you will gain weight in some time. 🙂

[@antoniojones6256]

@@mrgreenfull3897, Well that's reassuring,... now if we could just not make some other way to go extinct.

[@bedeAnimeFAN]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the orbital radius is mostly, if not only, influenced by the velocity of said object.

[@tach5884]

All of the meteors would have to come in from the same direction

[@MrT------5743]

MrGreenFull's estimate was low from what I have looked up. Earth gains between 100 - 300 metric tons in meteors per day but also looses atmosphere on average about 260 tons per day. So Earth is actually staying pretty close to even mass if not maybe slightly losing mass.

[@mathsdebater231]

Meters are class to look at great video

[@patrickjudge879]

These guys are the best to watch

[@tma2001]

I remember being woken early hours by intense bursts of light thru the curtain like something out of the Day of the Trifids - it was that Leonid meteor shower before the millenium. So many fireballs! that left ghostly trails of smoke twisting in the wind for many minutes afterward.

[@shadowclaytonb]

I NEED AN APP ON MY PHONE THAT ALERTS ME TO THE NEXT METEOR SHOWER/STORM. I WOULD WATCH ALL OF THEM :)

[@LerrinB]

Someone needs to animate Neil’s thoughts! 🗣

[@h7opolo]

if seen more shooting stars this year than ever in my life. coincidentally enough, 2021 is one of the 33 year cycles of the Leonid comet.

[@LEDewey_MD]

OMG. When Chuck explained what a "near face object" was, I just lost it!! Hilarious - and informative - show, as always!! :D

[@bonehead1534]

Chuck should do the intros in that low tone everytime

[@RojanskiTV]

Wow so crazy… on my way home last night i saw a small meteor … AND NOW MY FAV KZbin CONFIRMS IT! Wow love the internet!

[@f1dog]

I love this show!!! Absolutely hilarious and informative.

[@thomaslukowski5958]

Have been a listener / viewer of Star Talk for years and it always delivers. That said, it'd be nice if Chuck didn't feel compelled to scream into his mic.

[@professorsypher6174]

Okay, I must have caught some of this the other night. I had to let my dog out at around 3am and as soon as I open the door I see something fly by in the sky. I figured there was no way it was a shooting star, since I've never seen one before. I saw a couple more out of the corner of my eye and I wanted to stay to really see if I was right, but it was too cold. It's cool to know that I indeed kind of saw a meteor shower. I may try to purposefully catch the next one.

[@stevehammond]

Nice one guys! My question is why don't satelites and space craft get hit by space debris all the time?

[@jeffs6090]

They do, but definitely not all the time. Some satellites and space craft can move out of the way when objects that can be detected are detected. A crew of people keep track of all detectable debris and space junk in orbit 24/7. A main reason for infrequent hits, though, would be that the satellites are just too small compared to Earth. (Similar to when two galaxies collide, no stars or planets hit each other, the space between is just too much.) Earth's gravity wins and debris hits us instead. Some craft has needed repairs due to small impacts, and I'm sure a few may have needed to be shut down.

[@6crsz]

These are really exciting things to know.☄️☄️

[@flashpoint5200]

The Perseids happen on my birthday. for the last 5 years we've taken our camper van to the beach, I set up my telescope for some stargazing and get a cool meteor shower as a birthday bonus

[@MonkeyDude1999]

3:27 I think it’s 30km/second and not 30 000 km/second Neil 😅😂😂 great video overall, I love your explainer videos so much!❤️❤️❤️

[@Q_QQ_Q]

Yea

[@MrSkinkarde]

Gladly nobody cares What you think

[@lewcrew]

chuck is honestly 70% of the reason i watch this channel

[@lewcrew]

But i love you so much Neil, no offense

[@crontemisto8994]

Spartan meteors' families as they head off to the shower: "Come back carrying your heat shield, or on it."

[@shontayescott647]

Perfect timing. Just saw a shooting star for the first time in my life.

[@dimtsio9200]

I like when you guys are out of time! Means more time for learning! Greetings from Greece!

[@baddestmom9]

🤣🤣 Chuck's Meteor Storm show 🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@BIGREDDOG09]

Brilliant mixing comedy with science, reel us in guys!

[@samanthanor332]

I was laying in my sister's back yard with friends, and They all left me. I slept in the blanket alone watching it.

[@alecsfarax2033]

I was craving another video

[@rogerhollomand8910]

Hilarious, Chuck. That NFO reference was classic. Thank you for the LOL.

[@MegaSpacemanSpliff]

You guys are so great! Thank you!

[@eicktube]

I love to see Neil laugh and have good time because he is such an exceptional guy who deserves every minute of it.

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Okay, with all of this outgassing going on by comets and asteroids, should we be thinking about reducing or own bean consumption before earth stars outgassing? Thank you gentlemen for another Monday morning coffee break video.

[@ikitclaw7146]

Do Earth farts count towards global warming or do they help since the gas is expelled.... lol

[@HowHingPau]

Whenever I hear "watching a meteor shower", I automatically think of the movie "The Day of the Triffids".

[@MarioDallaRiva]

Sorry, Dr Neil…at 3:28 you mentioned 30,000km per second. Is that correct??

[@sharizabel2582]

I was on a carrier in the Persian gulf during one of these storms. At the same time the bioluminescent algae was blooming. It was a gorgeous of nature.

[@nunyabiznez666]

Perseids are more popular because it's the most active as well, not just the weather......but I'm sure you knew that 😜 As long as you're prepared to be out in the cold for others, there's no issue! ❤

[@celesteschacht8996]

You two are the most fun which is why I don’t even know I’m learning so much

[@muhammadbashirmusa8238]

Oh Chuck near face object oh my God that's hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂

[@kennethjinkins8967]

every time there's gonna be a meteor shower , it's cloudy

[@beatdowngaming8423]

Near face object 😆😆 you guys definitely make learning fun!

[@intarunner]

So good watching these guys talk 🙂🙏

[@guillermokleisinger5548]

I saw a meteor heading straight for me too some years ago, was like a star expanding for less than a second in the sky

[@princessaur]

Meteor Storm would be a sick band name.

[@tuberworksjones]

It relaxing to listen guys, keep it up

[@katyRose088]

A couple weeks ago my son and I were looking up and saw many direct for you meteors. It was the first time I had ever seen them like that

[@pash9516]

i'm an avid admirer of meteor showers, and i have the weirdest luck of always looking up at the right moment when others are not. unfortunately due to a stressful school year and living without a car in a major city, my opportunities to properly view them have been limited in the last year. but despite that, both during the geminids in december and the perseids in august, i hapened to be going on a late night stroll or sitting on my balcony, trying to get a glimpse of the stars through the city smog, and looked at the right moment to see a bright fireball shining across the sky. my boyfriend never looking at the right moment, wondering why i suddenly shrieked and started jumping up and down! i don't understand how people arent obbsessed with the night sky

[@curtiswilson5704]

You guys make learning so fun!

[@rookangelofmercy7283]

Chuck videos are always a watch

[@dgw4049]

If you've never stayed up late with the intention of watching a meteor explode in the atmosphere... do it tonight. It's beautiful.

[@marinalomanova8077]

Star Talk is Awesome))))))

[@TheSwiftMagician]

I had a bright bolide meteor head straight for me until it exploded. It lasted about 6 to 8 seconds and then exploded. It really got bright, and I was kinda scared by it. But what a site!

[@robsengahay5614]

December is the ideal month for being outside at night looking at the stars or are these meteor showers only visible in the northern hemisphere?

[@ikitclaw7146]

I wish it was ideal, ive not seen the sky for 5 days now, its either raining or overcast lol. But when it eventually does pass, cold air is better for looking at the stars through, you dont get heat distortion, they always look clearer in winter.

[@robsengahay5614]

@@ikitclaw7146 Totally clear skies here in Queensland, Australia. Now all I would have to do is be up at 3am and ideally drive out of suburban light pollution.

[@ikitclaw7146]

@@robsengahay5614 I live in england, need i say more? lol 🌧

[@robsengahay5614]

@@ikitclaw7146 No. I lived there for 55 years so understand fully.

[@macanoodough]

I live in Northern AZ where the bugs are so big you hear them pop before you hear the splat. Always wondered why that was...

[@msmith53]

How about info on the “to be launched”, Webb Telescope??

[@jonathanjollimore4794]

Fun to watch on a clear night done that before just have to be lucky to catch one

[@1974lionsfan]

Its Dec here in MI and clear night are very few but last night at about 430am i went outside to see if it cleared up like it was supposed after 4 and in the breaks between clouds, i saw 3 in a 5 min span

[@murasaki848]

Anyone who can't imagine what Neil is saying about the shooting gallery we're in really needs to wrap their heads around the Chelyabinsk meteor videos.

[@SPACEiQ1746]

Chuck is trying his utmost to stay interested in what Neil is taking about it seems like, lol lol. I personally love listening to Neil speak he is extremely informative

[@Damien99]

1999 The universe flexes for Dr Tyson! Even the universe loves him!

[@aimskd]

Hey Neil, we need to interview the windshield crashing bugs 🤣🤣🤣

[@49erbandit69]

Very nice guys, interesting and very funny!!

[@diegofernandez4789]

Man, that ending was hilarious!

[@jean-paulolivier8228]

Quick question: if a golf ball is a large meteor that shines brightly (saw a few of those here in Durban, South Africa last night around 1:30), how big would a meteor need to be I order to make it to the surface? And does this factor in the composite materials of the meteor? Love your show! Jean-Paul Olivier

[@matthewlofton8465]

It only needs to be the size of a soccer ball or so to reach the surface, but a meteor that small probably gets reduced down to something more like a large bullet. You are very much dead if such a meteor slams into you directly (unless you were lucky enough that it tore through something non-essential like your hand or foot), but if it has to puncture something else first then it could very well just bounce off of you (however painful that might be) or come to a rolling stop at your feet. In the late 90s or so, a guy was at a party at a friend's house when he got into an argument with his girlfriend. He was literally walking away from the argument and on his way out from the party when a meteor shredded his heart right in front of Angry Girlfriend. In a more recent instance, a woman was in bed sleeping when a meteor about the size of a deck of cards punctured the roof of her house and landed on her pillow mere inches from her head. Something that might cause some real damage or generate an impact crater I guess would have to be about as big as a small refrigerator, but it's more likely that a bigger asteroid fell in and exploded into smaller pieces that then hit the ground.

[@ASJC27]

Interesting video, but as aerodynamic design is my field of work, I have to disagree with the whole air pressure - bugs thing. If this was true it would break both the first and second laws of thermodynamics. It is the impact with the glass that does the deed. The highest pressure at any point on the surface of a car (or any other object for that matter) is known as the stagnation pressure, or total pressure, and is equal to ambient pressure plus the dynamic pressure. It is usually found at the forward extreme of the car - so the bumper area. Thermodynamics tell us it is impossible to get a pressure higher than that without adding heat or external work to the air. Let's look at numbers. A car going 70 mph at about sea level experiences a dynamic pressure of about 600 Pa. So the total pressure (highest possible pressure on the surface) is an increase of about 0.5% from ambient pressure (101325 Pa at sea level). That's nothing. To put it in more intuitive terms, the increase in pressure right before impact with a car's bumper is equivalent to a bug flying at 165 ft above sea level versus right at sea level. If we assume that this added pressure was enough to send a bug on early retirement by a 70 mph car at 170 ft above sea level, we would not not see any of these pesky mosquitos flying at sea level, which is obviously not the case. Let's go a step further. Large airliners takeoff at about 200 mph. That speed at sea level results in a total pressure only 5% higher than ambient. I strongly doubt that a 5% increase in pressure would harm a bug, so even at airliner takeoff speeds this claim raises both of my eye brows.

[@ttmilbr]

"Anti-bully was alternate route home".. Yep, done that. Love you guys.

[@jfreshh330]

I love Chucks Seinfeld impression 😂

[@stephanienirenberg7426]

This episode was fantastic.