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A Piece of asteroid.

I'm Seth Andrews and what you're about to hear is a true story.

What an amazing time we live in. Our ancient ancestors used to look up at the night sky and

they didn't see stars per se I mean they saw lights but they couldn't begin

to understand suns and planets they couldn't imagine the cosmos that we view today through our telescopes, light and darkness were often seen

through the lenses of superstitions of good and evil. Early New Zealand tribes thought that every star was the soul of a

hero who had been slain in battle. The brighter the star the braver the hero.

In 350 B.C. E. the and then blow them out the following morning.

The early Spanish Iberians said that the stars were flickering nail heads,

nails which held up the ceiling of the universe. I could go on and on. Imagine if we could get in a time

machine and go back an attempt and explanation of what is really out there.

How would we even start?

This is a solar system, this is a galaxy, here is the universe, here's a sun sun which is also a star, and those are moons and planets.

And what if we try to teach the people of our past about asteroids?

And we talk about an amazing endeavor, a fantastic mission involving

teams of thousands and thousands of engineers and researchers and scientists, including an astrophysicist named Brian,

the man who was a small and yet also not so small part of this NASA team working to land a

probe on the surface of an asteroid. Take samples from the surface and then

rocket those samples back to our laboratories here on

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