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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So a meteor is more of a general term.

It's what happens if an asteroid or a comet is falling through the Earth's atmosphere.

Doesn't really matter whether it starts off as a comet or an asteroid.

So this little piece of rock no bigger than a pea, is that kind of what a shooting star is?

It's just a little piece of space rock on fire?

Yeah, that's what we're seeing.

We're seeing little bits of rock burning through our atmosphere.

Cool.

But Emily, even cooler is that this pea-sized chunk of rock has been traveling through the cosmos since the solar system formed.

And it really is traveling fast, shooting.

So the Earth is accumulating space rocks?

Yeah, the atmosphere is growing in mass and our solar system is always changing.

That's how the planet's formed, by accumulating space rocks and continuing to grow.

Wow.

This is kind of blowing my mind.

Like, it's making me reconsider what a planet is.

Is this how the Earth was made?

Yeah.

Just rocks colliding?

Yeah, mass attracts mass.

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