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October 2024 - Dusty Snowballs

Season 2024, Ep. 10

Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2024.

 

Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Sommer Johansen and Gabi Wenzel.


Sommer's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00120


Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391


Timestamps


0:00 - Intro

1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer)

19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte

20:58 - Grab & Go Papers

35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone Autumn Parasol

36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)

1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets

1:16:55 - Chalkboard

 

Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.


The History of Amino Acid detections in comets in this month's Percolator.


Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.

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