Emily Kwong

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4,795 appearances 100 recordings 11 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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That's a really cool job description.

Yes, I agree.

And she told me that, first of all, there's a couple of types of space rocks out in the universe orbiting our sun.

There's asteroids and there's comets.

What is the difference?

Asteroids are strictly any planetary body or like hunk of rock from the asteroid.

Okay.

Comets, on the other hand, they're made up of ice and dust.

They're basically big, dirty snowballs.

But astronomers have been observing them for like thousands of years.

And how many comets are there out there?

NASA says there's about 4,000 known comets, but there's probably way more orbiting the sun beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt.

We just don't notice them because they're kind of just hanging out and orbiting.

I love it when comets come by Earth.

It's a global science event.

You know, we have Halley's Comet.

And then in the Northern Hemisphere, we get the treat of seeing the Perseid shower every August.

But how many of those bits of space rock make it down here to the Earth's surface?

You're telling me it's a comet?

Right.

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