How do boomerangs return?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A boomerang is a specially curved wooden throwing stick that was originally used as a hunting tool by Indigenous Australians. Nowadays, you can find toy versions along with the real thing, and if you throw them just right, they’ll curve around in the air and head right back to you. At least…it works for some people. So how exactly does a boomerang fly? We asked boomerang champion Logan Broadbent to help us find the answer.

Got a question that keeps coming back to you? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll booma-wrangle some answers for you.

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0:35.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um,
0:42.4	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Weggle.
0:47.5	Um. Wait a minute. Is that Anna Goldfield over there? By a campfire with a guitar? I wonder what that's about.
0:56.4	Hi, Anna G. Oh, hi Anna, W. Why the sad face, pal? I've been working on my boomerang
1:03.8	throat all day, and I just can't get the dang thing to come back. I mean, that's what they're
1:09.6	supposed to do, right? And mine just won't.
1:13.7	So I wrote a ballot about it. You want to hear? Definitely.
1:21.4	I tried and I tried to do this thing right
1:30.1	but you spin through the air on a fast one-way flight
1:36.4	My poor little heart will just have to learn
1:43.1	That my boomerang will never return.
1:50.9	Oh my goodness, that's heartbreaking.
1:53.9	I have so many boomerang feelings now.
1:56.5	But don't despair, buddy.
1:57.9	Listen to this question from Moses and the answer from Boomerang champ Logan Broadbent.
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