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    On this week’s show: The hunt for natural hydrogen deposits heats up, and why we need a space mission to an ice giant

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    • On this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️ with @boron110, @erichand, and @mommascientist: ▶️ The hunt for natural hydrogen deposits heats up ▶️ What a mission to Uranus could tell us about the formation of our #SolarSystem 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/W00OQMwkeJ https://t.co/YcV7KlwgpH

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    Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Earth and planetary scientists. Their work shows that some primitive meteorites contain a different mix of potassium isotopes than those found in other, more-chemically processed meteorites. These results can help elucidate the processes that shaped our Solar System and determined the composition of its…

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    • #Solarsystem formed from “poorly mixed cake batter,” #isotope research shows @carnegiescience https://t.co/ilqynTQiex

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    Brown dwarfs are objects intermediate in mass between large planets and small stars, and their atmospheres share many characteristics with gas giant planets. Wind speeds in Solar System gas giant atmospheres can be derived by comparing the planet’s rotational periods in the infrared (tracing the upper atmosphere) and radio (tied to the interior). Allers et al. observed a nearby brown dwarf, 2MASS…

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    • Strong winds blow high in the atmosphere of the nearby brown dwarf 2MASS J1047+21, according to a new Science study, which shows how this approach can be adapted to measure the winds on gas giants and brown dwarfs far outside our #SolarSystem. ($) https://t.co/2mF98uS32N https://t.co/oCeyDyDHQ5

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    Brown dwarfs are objects intermediate in mass between large planets and small stars, and their atmospheres share many characteristics with gas giant planets. Wind speeds in Solar System gas giant atmospheres can be derived by comparing the planet’s rotational periods in the infrared (tracing the upper atmosphere) and radio (tied to the interior). Allers et al. observed a nearby brown dwarf, 2MASS…

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    • Strong winds blow high in the atmosphere of the nearby brown dwarf 2MASS J1047+21, according to a new Science study, which shows how this approach can be adapted to measure the winds on gas giants and brown dwarfs far outside our #SolarSystem. ($) https://t.co/2mF98uArEd https://t.co/lFEpqZ0bgT

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    The Cold Classical Kuiper Belt, a class of small bodies in undisturbed orbits beyond Neptune, are primitive objects preserving information about Solar System formation. In January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew past one of these objects, the 36-km long contact binary (486958) Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69). Images from the flyby show that Arrokoth has no detectable rings,…

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    • The farthest, most primitive object in the #SolarSystem ever to be visited by a spacecraft—a #KuiperBelt Object known as Arrokoth (2014 #MU69)—is described in detail in three new Science reports. 🚀https://t.co/Gk4uiykvTa 🚀https://t.co/HEuQjY3YbX 🚀https://t.co/O8Ood10pKF https://t.co/9qjnxBwHjA