Big Picture Science – Cosmic Conundra: Mark Showalter / Manic Moons

by Gary Niederhoff on December 6, 2015

Cosmic Conundra – Manic Moons
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Part 2 of Cosmic Conundra, featuring Mark Showalter, senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, on the unusually fast rotation rates of some of Pluto’s moons.

Tagged as: astronomy, moon, Pluto

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