- 516
- Episodes
- 135
- Transcribed
- 93
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2009
- First episode
About Cheap Astronomy Podcasts
Cheap Astronomy offers you 10 minute weekly podcasts on a wide range of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, space science and space exploration topics. At Cheap Astronomy you're only as cheap as the telescope you're looking through.
- Publisher
- Steve Nerlich
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Feb 2009
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
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385. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 154 - 12 October 2026
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385. Dear Cheap Astronomy - Episode 154 - 12 October 2026
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a whole different story on Earth, where we often find quite large meteorites that appear to have landed relatively gently. Although when we say quite large, we are talking 6.5 metres wide for the largest known intact meteorite, the Hoba meteorite found in Namibia. an asteroid plummeting towards Earth hits the atmosphere before it hits the ground. That initial impact is often enough to break an asteroid into pieces, which then keep falling up to their terminal velocity, the speed at which they are unable to push any faster through the atmosphere, despite the accelerating nature of gravity. […]
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