It’s always such a treat getting to hear an expert talk about something they’re passionate about and have dedicated their lives to understanding. I could listen to Tim talk about space rocks for hours!
@daugarten7 ай бұрын
Seems like you’d be a huge fan of the Ologies podcast 😉
@Doc_Fartens7 ай бұрын
"Space rocks are awesome." You might even say that space...Rocks.
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
Well played, sir. Well played. 😂
@custos32497 ай бұрын
Very wry. One could say, wryan.
@gngs04196 ай бұрын
Badum tssssssssss
@ericcarabetta11617 ай бұрын
As someone who’s completely math illiterate, it just blows me away how these people are able to calculate and time the trajectories for things millions of miles away. Might as well be magic.
@CaptainBollocks....7 ай бұрын
Pretty sure these things will be done using computers these days lol
@darkphantom_017 ай бұрын
U r not alone
@miriamrosemary91107 ай бұрын
@@CaptainBollocks.... Computers are like magic and they were made by people using math - so still a fitting statement!
@CaptainBollocks....7 ай бұрын
Of course the statement is fitting, but it's also worded in a way that the OP seems to think that people are literally doing the maths in their head lol. @@miriamrosemary9110
@VoidHaloАй бұрын
I personally found electronics to be a nice way to learn math while still having a practical application for the math you learn, and using it for said application. Instead of just learning the math and accepting that's how it is. It's a lot more intuitive when you put it to real use. And electronics lets you use everything from arithmetic to algebra to calculus and even trigonometry. Depending on how deep you want to go into it. But that's just what worked for me. I did find that the math carries over to physics just as well. People who step outside of their comfort zone are often greatly rewarded.
@hannayoung96577 ай бұрын
My friend named an asteroid after me, sadly I collided and got stuck into another asteroid. It was part of her schooling to follow one.
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
That’s so cool. I kinda think it’s even cooler that yours got stuck into another one. Maybe they’ll form a planet one day!
@fios45287 ай бұрын
I love how at 5:07 he pauses and says "does live" instead of "will live" implying there is some wiggle room for future life forms
@Corpsman017 ай бұрын
Holding that rock must have been awesome. A rock older than Earth itself! Amazing!
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
A rock older than earth, but shaped like Texas lol
@SomethingAbtScience7 ай бұрын
Hi smart people!
@GabAguy7 ай бұрын
Wait 2 minutes ago? I'm lucky
@iambiggus7 ай бұрын
@Alec_Reaper7 ай бұрын
Sorry I'm stupid
@sebastianchevalier17387 ай бұрын
I'm smart on Tuesdays
@ryangraf25427 ай бұрын
Not me
@SilverSlayer7 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉 I legit think I was your 5 millionth subscriber.. AS SOON as I clicked subscribe it turned to 5 million! Not exaggerating it was the same second! That felt really cool haha to prove.. it’s 1:47 EST on Jan. 27th you can probably verify it was me from social blade stats right now 😎
@lexburns90367 ай бұрын
Alien space rock shaped like Texas? Must’ve entered the galaxy through the transfer portal🤘🏾😂
@besmart7 ай бұрын
OSIRIS-REx was *all gas no brakes* 🤘
@raphmaster237 ай бұрын
Yee yee! @@besmart
@NotSoMuchFrankly7 ай бұрын
_Alien space rock shaped like Texas?_ Yes, otherwise known as...Texas.
@smugfei66827 ай бұрын
it looks more like Burundi to me, but I can see the resemblance to Texas as well.
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
I thought I was the only one that noticed!
@Proxtor7 ай бұрын
I would name the astroid "Granola", cause its a mix of everything and looks like it
@xpndblhero51704 ай бұрын
Now I want to go take a bite of it.... 😂
@fep_ptcp8837 ай бұрын
I thought you would talk about the Dart mission, Joe. Smacking a punch into an asteroid to calculate how much we can deflect them if needed...
@marcoflumino7 ай бұрын
That is alright Punching! not smacking!
@angelogodwinuy807 ай бұрын
If you're an avid fan of the channel I just want to say "It's okay to be Smart".
@Torok.Agoston7 ай бұрын
Congratulations on 5 million subscribers very soon! :)
@caro7487 ай бұрын
Just subscribed thanks to your comment :)
@NewMessage7 ай бұрын
Crowdsourced asteroid names? We're due for a 'Rocky McRockface', I guess.
@miroslavcibula68677 ай бұрын
I vote for that!
@iambiggus7 ай бұрын
I wonder if they found that meteorite in Texas?
@Rich797 ай бұрын
May be idk
@daniel_77.7 ай бұрын
universal coincidence lol
@ArchFundy7 ай бұрын
That's a red state. They would deny its existence or want to deport it.
@professorx30607 ай бұрын
Everything can look like Texas if you look long enough at it 😅
@roguedogx7 ай бұрын
0:13 that's just insane. -it's crazy how old it is -it's crazy that it's on earth -it's crazy that you are holding it (all in a good way of course)
@tomdunn39147 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed hearing about Benu and the jets.
@PorchPotatoMike7 ай бұрын
Osiris-Rex sure seems like a backronym.
@icinnalatte7 ай бұрын
excellent, some progress on the main storyline! Incredible :3
@HuzaifaAnsari10807 ай бұрын
Holding something older than earth on earth 😮..That is awesome..
@AppNasty7 ай бұрын
Come on 5 million subs! Been following since there was a few 100k.
@chaal_upaa7 ай бұрын
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. Tim McCoy’s enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for this video!
@jacksrandomadventures27697 ай бұрын
im glad he doesnt forget to mention the narwhals
@ocelot2197 ай бұрын
Univers feedback mechanism, from rock to "conscious" life, nice one
@edgeeffect7 ай бұрын
It'd be so cool to work for "The NASA Office of Contrived Acronyms" ;)
@ragesh297 ай бұрын
Better known as NOCA… 😅😅
@SolaceEasy7 ай бұрын
I live near Tucson Arizona and have multiple people working on this mission. The name comes from the group organizing the mission most typically. It's not from NASA, typically.
@BioniclesaurKing4t27 ай бұрын
I've been wondering about the progress of this mission since the PBS special on its "landing" aired. And in regards to "could a planet like ours exist in another solar system?", I'm inclined to believe that planets like ours probably only exist here because of Jupiter's early hungry antics, so it's Jupiters we should be looking for, otherwise we'll only find giant super-Earths.
@eistheguy37897 ай бұрын
ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNCHHHH
@skittlesryan78627 ай бұрын
Did anyone else thing that chunk of space rock in the beginning looked a little like the state of Texas
@windmill99987 ай бұрын
fun how u guys uploaded this today right after i went down a many-hour-long Wikipedia-and-more "rabbit hole" of space stuff and geology xD)) love this stuff, please keep it up :)))
@AwareOCE7 ай бұрын
This guy is incredible, Id love to have a conversation with him about his study and how he came to the idea to go hunt asteroid fragments for himself. Awesome video!
@skatalyst007 ай бұрын
When he mentions that the sample gathered contains all the elements we find on earth, it's wild to think that, after billions of years of evolution, life on earth has been able to mine, refine and develop those elements into advanced machines that can get that sample, just so that we can essentially go back to the beginning in order to understand what put it all in motion in the first place. It's a little zen, no? And it strongly confirms what I think is the most powerful, and even the most spiritual, statement about human existence, from the late great Carl Sagan: We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. (As the kids say today, mic drop!!)
@mixiekins7 ай бұрын
My man McCoy rockin that wizard wand 🤘
@aMEWzed7 ай бұрын
Great video! Thanks.
@GhostNinja00077 ай бұрын
3:48 First thing I noticed, That rock is shaped oddly like Texas🤣
@moonshoes117 ай бұрын
Same.
@SaugotChowdhury7 ай бұрын
That chunk of rock in the beginning, looks like a map of Texas
@monosodiumglutemate82167 ай бұрын
I'd call the asteroid either Leuleu, Poyppy, or Shlumpy. Nicknames of my kids.
@jnall59047 ай бұрын
How do you even pronounce that second name
@mariofix7 ай бұрын
I was waiting for these videos, thank you!!!
@ChrisPattisonCosmo6 ай бұрын
I am very jealous you got to see these! Great video
@CaoticoFanegasO_o6 ай бұрын
Well, many things to say. First of all, hire this Ted guy. He's so passionate about his trade, it would be a shame to spare all he has to teach. I don't know if he would be comfy just looking to the cold, glassy eye of a camera, but he'd have a ton of great ideas for a script (well, or whatever you may call several bunches of scripts). Second, nice coverage of the Bennu sample pod screw trouble. It might be easy to loosen a couple of screws, but it's not easy to loosen them while making sure that not even a speck of metal from the threads is going to contaminate the sample. You didn't have to say it like that, you just left the clues so anyone could figure it out. And last but not least, Osiris is not done! Renamed as Osiris-Apex is going to Apophis!
@mujigikabugi39277 ай бұрын
"Earth is a perfectly good planet with annoying biological scum covering it" What a perfect definition especially during these days
@SpaceflightSimulator7 ай бұрын
It has multiple meanings, absolutely!
@Agent-577 ай бұрын
Well without life Earth is basically just like any other planet out of the nigh infinite planets in the universe. So you are factually wrong.
@NotSoMuchFrankly7 ай бұрын
These days? You mean since we came down from the trees?
@glennbabic59547 ай бұрын
If you slice open an iron meteorite, there is no contamination inside. It's just an excuse for a space mission!
@NotSoMuchFrankly7 ай бұрын
@@glennbabic5954 Since the iron is very reactive, it can be exposed to a lot of things w/in weeks or days as was mentioned. But also, the outside is immediately compromised and cracks and fissures may not allow you to get a pristine sample even on the inside. In space, you can get a better determinant of the proportions of materials inside because you don't have to slice off the heterogenous parts on the outside.
@markwentz83327 ай бұрын
knocking on 5 million subs, nice!
@mattduncil7 ай бұрын
I’m curious about the stick “wand” the scientists used.
@MrBlackSatellite7 ай бұрын
Hi Joe, Smart people here!👋
@ArnoldsKtm7 ай бұрын
the way we can send out a robot and make it do all that complex stuff is simply astonishing.
@kismet80107 ай бұрын
I wish I could love anything as much as Tim loves rocks.
@bwedesign7 ай бұрын
I guess there's no 10-second-rule for falling meteorites.
@enderstarpg69217 ай бұрын
Cool video, but I am left with one question. How can they be sure that the Probe itself didn't contaminate the sample? Like if the amino acid building block were to be detected, how would we tell if it truly came from the rock and not something that got on the Probe during launch or transportation?
@gilles4667 ай бұрын
Amazing stuff as always! I'm interested in what the research on the ingredients for life brings us
@DunwellAntwi7 ай бұрын
I've never been tempted to steal a rock than now.
@carlsoll7 ай бұрын
3:59 THAT looks DiGiTaL 😮
@nicksamek127 ай бұрын
Also, I love Tim's pointer-wand!
@Rosie-And-Friends7 ай бұрын
How amazing to be holding something that came from space!
@KarmaCadet7 ай бұрын
amazing content! thank you for this!
@rdapigleo7 ай бұрын
Keeping with the NASA punched an asteroid, I’d like to call one “Rocky” 😂
@mattkuhn66347 ай бұрын
1:18 Honestly I expected him to say that the amazing thing about that rock was how much it resembles the state of Texas as drawn by a 5 year-old.
@simplystreaming32827 ай бұрын
Wouldn't the materials used to collect these samples be contaminated as it was made in Earth?
@kn0bhe4d7 ай бұрын
Anything that's sent into space has strict requirements when it's being built to limit contamination. And there are various levels to it as well; satellites will not need as much contamination, but anything that's sent to Mars let's say needs to have very strict requirements so as to not contaminate Mars with Earth biology. I would imagine the same sort of precautions were taken for this mission.
@simplystreaming32827 ай бұрын
@@kn0bhe4d but there could be microbes that possibly couldn't be eliminated , there is also the risk of contamination while launching ryt
@kn0bhe4d7 ай бұрын
@@simplystreaming3282 Yeah there's no absolute guarantee, we can only take the maximum precautions that we can.
@jamesmnguyen7 ай бұрын
I think they also used a special metal for the capsule/capturing system so they can easily tell what is rock and what is spaceprobe.
@avenged7peep9587 ай бұрын
It's absolutely incredible what humans are able to do
@Wolf9507 ай бұрын
Ahh, yes. The machine. Thermo Fisher. Of course. I swear they damn near have a monopoly.
@colinleat83097 ай бұрын
I'm glad they finally got the lid off!
@takenname80537 ай бұрын
I would name an asteroid Toph
@Pottery4Life7 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@muhammedtahasancar4867 ай бұрын
love your content
@nicksamek127 ай бұрын
I was expecting a video on DART based on the title!
@Ryak12347 ай бұрын
Does solar wind erode asteroids in some way?
@GreenPoint_one7 ай бұрын
I guess. Its roasted ond frozen all the time they come into light or shadow
@donkeyhobo347 ай бұрын
I'm vegan
@GreenPoint_one7 ай бұрын
@@donkeyhobo34 veganism is eroding too. You dont get nutrients like you need :3
@MS-qx9uw7 ай бұрын
It does in a sense, the irradiation, light pressure,heat, and surface level helium buildup does lead to aging of the surface. But get just a bit below the surface and it’s practically untouched
@michaelmeyers48437 ай бұрын
Joe just casually flexes "Oh yeah I got invited to come look at Bennu samples, no biggie"
@takingbacktheplanet7 ай бұрын
amazing stuff, joe! also incredible they were able to orbit a satellite under the asteroid's own power (gravity) if i understood correctly! wow! :)
@williamhardee88637 ай бұрын
I originally read this as, “Why NASA Punched an Astronaut,”.
@Andy_Babb7 ай бұрын
1:22 It’s the state of Texas!
@Rubrickety7 ай бұрын
I don't know what I would name an asteroid, but my new band is definitely goind to be called You, Me and the Narwhals.
@shaunmodipane17 ай бұрын
Nasa: "it was more like a raspberry rather than a punch."
@thiagocamargoalima7 ай бұрын
I thought that this rock looked like Texas at the beginning of the video and thought to my self "don't be stupid!". Well... 😏 😅😅😅😅
@starforge56637 ай бұрын
Joe, the ending of video made me gut from my reclining gaming chair, you couldn't have made it just a little bit longer? lol (that was joke btw) and I would name an asteroid mugge because its one of many origins of why we call mugs, mugs. Perhaps in a mug there will be space dust and tell us a thing or 2 about our soler system.
@heydontjudge5 ай бұрын
10/10 video, cool science machine
@robbl72095 ай бұрын
Would have been great to explain why the piece you were holding looks like it does -- that it's a *slice* of an asteroid. It may seem self-explanatory, but there are a lot of people who may not figure that out for themselves.
@Narcissus8337 ай бұрын
On the asteroid naming front, has anyone done ‘Rocky McRockface’ yet?!
@Treed45677 ай бұрын
What I really want to know is how the hell do they come up with these super cool names like osiris-rex while they are still a totally valid acronym.
@Aaron-P7 ай бұрын
Scanned the comments for my name suggestion, can't believe no one else thought of Asteroidy McAsteroidface.
@foxbat517 ай бұрын
Next they need to upper cut a comet.
@StrotherPitzke7 ай бұрын
I would name an asteroid, “Boaty McBoatFace.”
@Handsome_Christopher5 ай бұрын
8:00 is that a magic wand he has 😅
@abxorb7 ай бұрын
Anyone else also noticed the audio quality going up and down from about two-thirds of the video?
@NikitkaDreamer7 ай бұрын
Dang, you're almost at 5 million, Joe
@planescaped7 ай бұрын
"It took 2 years just to-" I was worried he was going to say come up with the Osiris Rex acronym. lol
@ibrahimswiss87147 ай бұрын
Great video thank you
@Mu51kM4n6 ай бұрын
NASA is incredibly serious about their acronyms
@devincreislerstudios7 ай бұрын
That space rock 🪨 looks like Texas
@krateskim41697 ай бұрын
A very good video
@MiguelAMiggs7 ай бұрын
He’s so cute cuz he’s so smiley and happy when he was getting all that rock stuff explained to him. 🥹
@TheNexusChan4 ай бұрын
Im glad the asteroids don't have feelings after getting punched
@RealSaintB7 ай бұрын
Dibs on the band name Dust Bunnies of the Solar System
@youtubersdigest5 ай бұрын
Why is that rock that’s older than any rock on earth shaped exactly like texas😂
@clipsdaily1017 ай бұрын
imagine being that asteroid and a giant earth bug lands on you and takes a bite then leaves
@hornetthehivewing62657 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan of outer space, and have been for as long as I can remember. It's so intriguing!
@bsicc7 ай бұрын
0:21 How did the pun master miss the opportunity to say "Space rocks... rock"
@TarEcthelion7 ай бұрын
These are like Long Exposure Photos of space that you can hold on your hands.
@nicksamek127 ай бұрын
I'd recommend looking more into the Apollo mission quarantine protocols -- they were totally ineffective and would not have worked had the astronauts been infectious.
@garethdean63827 ай бұрын
Dinosaurs,you have been AVENGED!
@wombatkins7 ай бұрын
I bought a very small asteroid piece and it is very cool to touch something so old
@Joe-bs9dj7 ай бұрын
Love that space bro
@ExistenceUniversity7 ай бұрын
2:20 It is not just adding material, it is doing for with force. Not all the clumps are gently falling into the mass center, some are coming in hot.