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Professor Meghan Gray discusses how a musical link started her exploration of this Near Earth Asteroid. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓

Composer Kaija Saariaho’s page: https://saariaho.org/works/asteroid-4179-toutatis

IAU’s Minor Planet Centre: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4179

The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang’e-2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860288/

Our Messier Objects playlist: http://bit.ly/MessierObjects

Prof Meghan Gray: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/meghan.gray

More viedos with Dr Gray (mainly on our sister channel Sixty Symbols): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBORQN625NgO3c4T82M6w2st

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Video by Brady Haran and James Hennessy