Cosmic Queries – Planet 9

**Chuck Nice** (0:00)
Every discovery starts with a question. What if? Why?

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (0:04)
How?

**Chuck Nice** (0:04)
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Hola, si tengo una reservacion para Carlos? What you heard right there is a real world scenario where I'm checking in to a hotel, except I'm not doing it in my own language. Why?
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Just la hora, amigos.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:44)
Chuck, another query's grab bag.

**Chuck Nice** (2:45)
Yes.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:46)
My favorite one is the person wants to know what the chance of getting hit by a meteor.

**Chuck Nice** (2:50)
Yes. And you were actually taken out by a meteor.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (2:53)
Almost. I'm okay. Dillman 11 on StarTalk. Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now.
This is StarTalk Cosmic Queries. And as always, it's a grab bag edition. And I got Chuck Nice with me. How are you doing, Chuck?

**Chuck Nice** (3:22)
Hey, Neil. Doing well, man. Thanks for asking.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:25)
There's no shortage of people's questions.

**Chuck Nice** (3:27)
Yes. People really inquiring minds want to know.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:33)
So bring it on.

**Chuck Nice** (3:34)
Let's jump right into it. Andy L says, Hello, stellar intellects and also co-host of the week.
My name is... He has assumed that the co-host is clearly not of a stellar intellect. So this is...

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (3:54)
But he's allowing it to have been other co-hosts because we have other co-hosts that come in.

**Chuck Nice** (3:58)
Yes. Yes. That's why I'm not taking it personally. He says, Hey, my name is pronounced Andy. See, now that lets me know that he thinks it's me. See, now you're full of it.
Andy. And I know what the D stands for too.
Anyway, by the way, that's another name. It's nickname for Richard. Thank you.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (4:25)
He says, It's also a nickname for private detective.

**Chuck Nice** (4:28)
That's correct. Private Dick. That's right.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (4:30)
Yes. And that's why in the opening song to the movie Shaft, Isaac Hayes sings, Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?

**Chuck Nice** (4:43)
Yeah, I think he was talking about investigations.

**Neil deGrasse Tyson** (4:49)
That was a line I had to like listen to a few times and then I had to look up the definition. And one of the definitions of Dick was private detective. So that was a weird scripting there. Okay, go ahead.

**Chuck Nice** (5:01)
Way to go, Isaac Hayes. He said, I heard there may be a large planet or dwarf planet orbiting beyond Pluto.