S2E05 - The Search for Planet X (Planetary Science)

#PlanetX #PlanetaryScience #ExtrasolarPlanets #SolarSystemEvolution  #Telescopes #Observatories #ScienceGames #BoardGames #Science Overview We're going back into space this episode with The Search for Planet X, by Foxtrot Games and Renegade Game Studios. Join us with our guest, Addie Dove, planetary scientist and co-host of the Walkabout the Galaxy podcast, as we search for the mysterious Planet X while juggling the issues of scheduling telescope time, publishing papers, and attending conferences.  Timestamps 00:00 - Introductions 03:02 - Space smells and asteroid threats 07:28 - Game overview 16:46 - What is Planet X? 20:22 - Hunting for things in our solar system 27:14 - What do we learn from planetary science? 31:56 - Extrasolar planets 38:03 - Logic rules and real bodies 43:39 - In-game publishing & real-world controveries 47:18 - Nitpick corner 50:17 - Final grades 55:49 - Wrap-up Links The Search for Planet X (Renegade Game Studios)Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast Article on Planet X history (The Planetary Society) Citronaut Dave (Addy's instagram) Find our socials at https://www.gamingwithscience.net  This episode of Gaming with Science™ was produced with the help of the University of Georgia and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Full Transcript (Some platforms truncate the transcript due to length restrictions. If so, you can always find the full transcript on https://www.gamingwithscience.net/ ) Unknown Speaker  0:00  Music. Brian  0:06  Hello and welcome to the gaming with science podcast where we talk about the science behind some of your favorite games. Jason  0:11  Today, we'll be talking about the search for Planet X by Fox Trot games. All right, everyone, welcome back to gaming with science. This is Jason,  Brian  0:20  this is Brian, Addie  0:22  and I'm Addie Dove.  Jason  0:23  All right, we have the inestimable, incorrigible Addie Dove, who told us just before recording, that she comes from the best podcast walk about the galaxy. Addie  0:33  I have the shirt on today too. Brian  0:35  Oh, cool,  Jason  0:36  which, sorry, listeners. We can't show you that. It's an audio podcast. You can look it up. I'm sure they have it for sale somewhere. Anyway, Addie, can you introduce yourself to our audience, let them know who you are and why you're on the show about finding Planet X. Addie  0:48  Happy to Yeah, hi. I'm Addie Dove. I'm a planetary scientist and physicist at the University of Central Florida. So My day job is that I do research understanding planetary surfaces. I study dust in space, so dust, specifically on the moon and asteroids, and how it behaves and how we understand it. I'm involved in a number of experimental projects and missions, and my favorite part about my research is that I've done things on on orbital assets, so on the ISS, on cube sats and on the vomit comet. So I've actually flown on the parabolic airplane flights.  Jason  1:25  Fun or, well, I don't know I've heard about the vomit comet, maybe not so fun, but it's fun.  Addie  1:31  I love it so much.  Jason  1:32  So you are an astro quark. That's what the host of the walk about the Galaxy podcast call themselves.  Addie  1:36  Yes, it is.  Brian  1:38  Yes. Are you bottom quark or charm? You are. Charm. Quark, Jason was right, He's right, Addie  1:45  Yeah. So we have strange and charm, and then we also have bottom. And lately, our newest Astro quark is down. So this is a, this is a clever name that we have because we're mostly astronomy folks, and it's astronomy podcast, and quarks are sort of like the fundamental units, right, of matter. And so there's strange charm, top bottom or truth and beauty, if you like those names a little bit better, instead of top and bottom, and then up and down. Brian  2:11  Truth and beauty are substitutes for which ones then? Addie  2:14  top and bottom.  Jason  2:15  Yeah, same initials, but more poetic, yes.  Okay, one of our quark