About this episode

The episode discusses updates on water plumes from Europa and new findings about interstellar comet 3I, along with a discovery of tektites indicating a major impact on Earth.

OG Top Quark Tracy Becker joins us with an update on water plumes from Jupiter's moon Europa, plus intriguing new data of interstellar comet 3I shows it is even older than we thought, with an age approaching that of the Milky Way galaxy itself. A new field of tektites has been discovered, pointing to a previously unknown major impact on the Earth. Join us for all this, space news, trivia and more.

People in this episode

Hosts: Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, James Cooney

Guest: Tracy Becker

Topics covered

• water plumes
• Jupiter's moon
• interstellar comets
• tektites
• space news
• trivia

Keywords

• Europa
• water plumes
• interstellar comet
• 3I
• tektites
• impact
• space news

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Europa, Jupiter, Milky Way, Earth

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