Earth

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#17 trending in Health & Science this week · most on Something You Should Know

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object currently known to harbor life. It is an ocean world whose liquid surface water covers about 70.8% of its crust, with the remainder consisting primarily of land and continental regions.

Rank this week

#17new
#269 over 30 days

Share of the conversation

1.9‰
2.6× usual level

1.8‰ of what listeners heard

Reach this week

3 shows
3 episodes · ~238k plays

Tone this week

Neutral
  • Neutral 3

Share of the conversation

Mentions of Earth per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, health & science.

0.0‰2‰4‰6‰8‰usual level · 0.74‰Jul 11Aug 2Aug 25Sep 16Oct 8
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DayShare (7-day)Mentions
Aug 34.15‰1
Aug 46.10‰1
Aug 94.06‰1
Aug 112.40‰2
Aug 132.24‰1
Aug 231.65‰3
Aug 261.99‰1
Aug 311.09‰1
Sep 12.18‰2
Sep 22.80‰2
Sep 81.63‰1
Sep 150.57‰1
Sep 201.04‰1
Sep 221.39‰2
Sep 300.47‰1
Oct 20.98‰1
Oct 61.99‰2

Why is it trending?· Last 7 days

Earth appears in debates about life, cosmic objects, and asteroid samples

Neil deGrasse Tyson argued that Earth’s late formation challenges the idea that the universe was made for life, while its biochemistry required elements unavailable at the universe’s beginning.[1]

On StarTalk, Chuck Nice and Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Hoag’s Object as seen from Earth, including whether its unusual appearance could involve gravitational lensing.[2]

Short Wave discussed NASA bringing asteroid Bennu samples back to Earth, where scientists studied rocks and dust collected from the spacecraft’s mission.[3]

Sources · 3 moments

  1. 1.
    Something You Should Know · SYSK TRENDING -The Intriguing Mysteries of the Universe
    Neil deGrasse Tyson · Oct 6 · Listen at 5:38 ↗
    “who like thinking of the universe as this haven for life and its perfect laws of physics come together to enable life. But first of all, the universe would have gone nearly a billion years before Earth even formed. So if the universe were m”
  2. 2.
    StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Cosmic Queries – Light Sails & Quantum Scales
    Chuck Nice · Oct 6 · Listen at 29:10 ↗
    “Right on. Okay, let's move on to Rachel Ambrose. That says, hello, Rachel here from Austin, Texas. Neil, all right, are you familiar with Hoag's object? How statistically improbable is that? From our line of sight here on Earth, we'd see a”
  3. 3.
    Short Wave · Eating alone may be secretly spiking your blood sugar
    Regina Barber · Oct 2 · Listen at 7:01 ↗
    “Yeah, it's, it's something that truly boggles my mind. NASA sent a spacecraft to Bennu. This is an asteroid that comes pretty close to Earth every 6 years to collect samples, and they brought those samples back to Earth.”

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