Ask a Spaceman! Podcast Transcripts
Paul M. Sutter · 286 episodes with transcripts
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Spoken has transcripts of 286 Ask a Spaceman! episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.
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AaS! 281: What Makes the Scattered Disk So Wild?
October 6, 2026
Paul M. Sutter (0:06)
Okay, so I decided that the theme of this episode would be the Old West. You know, dusty saloons, frontier towns, bandits on the horizon. And I was considering doing the entire episode in an old-timey western, saddle-up, partner kind of way. And I did it for more than two sentences and came to the conclusion that it…
Most of our mental maps of the solar system stop at Neptune. Sometimes we may include Pluto as a, oh yeah, it's usual. Solar system goes past that, isn't it? Right? And if we're especially nerdy, we also know about the Kuiper belt or Kuiper belt, however you want to say it, which includes Pluto and some other…
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