SciShow Space: There's Apparently an Asteroid Between Mercury and Venus | Space News

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Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Astronomers have found the first asteroid orbiting closer to the Sun than Venus, and recently, some scientists have been looking at Earth, trying to understand the origins of our protective magnetic field. Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/first-asteroid-found-inside-orbit-venus https://earthsky.org/space/2020-av2-1st-intervenusian-asteroid https://www.space.com/news/this-newly-discovered-asteroid-is-the-second-closest-natural-object-to-the-sun https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06109.pdf https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/meet-2020-av2-the-first-asteroid-found-that-stays-inside-venuss-orbit https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-01/uor-nrp011520.php https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-01/potn-eem011520.php https://www.eurekalert.org/file/jrnls/pnas/pdfs/pnas.201916553.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16495 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6247/521 Images: Thumbnail: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/Solar_System.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2156/asteroid-belt/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pti_aerial_photo_B.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palomar_Observatory_(15255350717).jpg https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051129.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_2020_AV2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020AV2orbit.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11544 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12249 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/res/221669.php?from=452731 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/680/nasa-study-goes-to-earths-core-for-climate-insights/ https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/Solar_System.html


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