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The Rocket Swing & The Very Small Planet

Season 2, Ep. 10

Ruby’s backyard swing has officially become a Rocket Swing powered entirely by imagination.

In this kids space adventure podcast episode, Hat guides Ruby on a journey beyond Earth to explore a real dwarf planet called Makemake.

Far beyond Neptune, in the icy outer solar system known as the Kuiper Belt, lies a tiny frozen world made of rock and ice. It’s smaller than Earth, extremely cold, and still orbiting the Sun proving that even the smallest worlds can be part of something huge.


Along the way, kids learn fun, simple space science for kids, including what dwarf planets are, how they move through space, and why the universe is full of surprising tiny worlds with big stories.


This episode blends educational storytelling, imagination play, and science discovery, as a backyard Rocket Swing becomes a launchpad into real astronomy.


Perfect for kids who love:

🚀 Space adventures

🌌 Planets and stars

🧠 Learning through stories

🎧 Kids podcasts with characters

🔭 Fun science facts


A Hat Business adventure where imagination meets real science and even the smallest planet can inspire the biggest journey.

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