Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the planet Mercury is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System (NASA)
- Mercury: a moon-scale body (The Planetary Society)
- Planetary Profile: The Weirdness of Mercury (Museum Of Science Boston)
- In Our Time: Mercury (BBC Radio 4)
- Our Solar System: Mercury Facts (NASA)
- Earth’s Moon: Tidal Locking (NASA)
- Day and Night on Mercury: The very long Mercurian Day (European Southern Observatory)
- 60 Second Adventures In Astronomy: A day on Mercury (The Open University)
- The explanation of Mercury’s capture into the 3:2 spin-orbit resonance as a result of its chaotic orbital dynamics (Observatoire de Paris)
- Goodreads.com page for some of Kurt Vonnegut’s text about harmoniums in ‘The Sirens Of Titan’
- How did this rare pink manta, photographed in Australia, get its color? (National Geographic)
- Cool Cosmos: How strong is the gravity on Mercury? (Caltech)
- Cool Cosmos: What color is Mercury? (Caltech)
- Cool Cosmos: Who discovered Mercury? (Caltech)
- Life on the Planet Mercury? ‘It’s Not Completely Nuts’ (The New York Times)
- Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the Sun? (The Conversation)
- Mercury’s Messy Surface May Have Once Had Crucial Ingredients for Life (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Mercury’s Caloris Basin (NASA)
- The five most impressive geological structures in the solar system (The Conversation)
- Planet Mercury (Natural History Museum London)
- Unmistakable Evidence Shows That Mercury Just Keeps Shrinking (Popular Mechanics)
- Mercury is still shrinking as it cools (Ars Technica)
- Scientific Visualization Studio: Mercury’s Ice Lockers (NASA)
- Seven Century Catalog of Mercury Transits: 1601 CE to 2300 CE (NASA)
- Three reasons why we know so little about Mercury (The European Space Agency)
- Mercury exploration timeline (University of Leicester)
- Collection Objects: Mariner 10 (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum)
- Mariner Program (NASA)
- Scientific Visualization Studio: Global View of Mercury (NASA)
- A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby (The European Space Agency)
- BepiColombo: Investigating Mercury’s mysteries (The European Space Agency)
- Giuseppe ‘Bepi’ Colombo: Grandfather of the fly-by (The European Space Agency)
- Mariner 10, a mission of firsts, used gravity to bend its way from Venus to Mercury (Astronomy Magazine)
- Mission: BepiColombo (NASA)
- BepiColombo, studying how Mercury formed (The Planetary Society)
- Science & Exploration: Giotto overview (The European Space Agency)
- blog post from “SurnamesInItaly.com” listing common family names assigned to orphans and foundlings
- Copernicus Unearthed: Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the 16th century astronomer who revolutionized our view of the universe (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Before the Transit of Mercury: forgotten forerunners of an astronomical revolution (The Guardian)
- Einstein’s genius changed science’s perception of gravity (Science News)
- Vulcan? But that’s not logical… (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum)
- Precession of the perihelion of Mercury (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Einstein’s general relativity reveals new quirk of Mercury’s orbit (Science News)
- Why Star Trek & Doctor Who Both Have Planets Called Vulcan (Screenrant.com)
- Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Venus
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Saturn
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apollo 17
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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