Thanks so much for the massive outpouring of new name suggestions! Keep sending 'em. We're taking next week off, but then after that... a newly named show will emerge from the glistening chrysalis of the old.
And now, the all-apocalypse episode: a doomsday vault for seeds, tracking a killer asteroid, targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and contemplating a real-life Cylon attack.
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Today's 60 Second Science Podcast is brought to you by Houghton Mifflin, who are going to be very busy if they have to rewrite their astronomy textbooks:
Comet Dust Seems More Asteroidy
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An asteroid, you know, like the one that flattened a Siberian forest in 1908, has an usually high chance of hitting Mars on January 30, 2008.
"We're used to dealing with odds like one-in-a-million," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near-Earth Object office. "Something with a one-in-a-hundred chance makes us sit up straight in our chairs."
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