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  • The Universe Ride the Comet (Season 7, Episode 6)
  • TV-14
    TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary, History

The Universe

Ride the Comet (Season 7, Episode 6)
TV-14
TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary, History

Board a virtual space ship to travel along with a variety of comets; long and short period, sun grazers, comets masquerading as asteroids and comets still in deep freeze in the Oort cloud. Then ride along on the NASA probes that visited ...See moreBoard a virtual space ship to travel along with a variety of comets; long and short period, sun grazers, comets masquerading as asteroids and comets still in deep freeze in the Oort cloud. Then ride along on the NASA probes that visited nearby comets. Written by David Foss See less
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Director
Writers
Gabriel Rotello (supervising writer) | Laura Verklan
Composer
Cinematographers
Tony Belko | Tom Collins | Kenneth Stipe (as Ken Stipe)
Editor
Status
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Updated Jun 10, 2012

Release date
Jun 10, 2012 (United States)

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7 cast members
Name Known for
Erik Thompson
Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Amy Mainzer
Self - NASA / JPL Self - NASA / JPL   See fewer
Don Yeomans
Self - NASA / JPL Self - NASA / JPL   See fewer
Alex Filippenko
Self - Univ. of California, Berkeley Self - Univ. of California, Berkeley   See fewer
Laura Danly
Self - Griffith Observatory Self - Griffith Observatory   See fewer
Peter H. Schultz
Self - NASA Ames Research Center (as Peter Schultz) Self - NASA Ames Research Center (as Peter Schultz)   See fewer
Michael Mischna
Self - NASA / JPL Self - NASA / JPL   See fewer
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