Carl Sagan The Planets 1977 RI Christmas Lectures (Part 1 1/6)

Carl Sagan 1977 RI Christmas Lectures - Part 1 The Earth as a Planet

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[venompangx]

As Christmas approaches, I wish I there was a good Christmas lecture to attend.

[9Rayvik9]

Hey, thanks for uploading the video. But there is one part in it in which he refers to a planet between saturn and uranus. I know this is not true considering its been decades since the lectures. But do you know what he was possibly referring to?

[venompangx]

If you can tell me which clip and give me the time, maybe.

[Demosthenes140]

Thank you so much for uploading these lectures.

I miss Carl Sagan. The human mind and spirit at its very best. Just one great guy!

[asrowley]

This man is an absolute legend!

[renedescartes1989]

TED version in 1977 lol..

BTW nice speech Sagan!

[TheKcsmithy]

love the video man

[thejameskan]

love the video really good

[msjessypp]

Very enjoyable thank you

[RyanTheChristian]

I had absolutely no idea Sagan had lectured at the Royal Institute at Christmas. What a pleasure this will be!

[12301231234]

@9Rayvik9 I think he is referring to Chiron (Search Eso.org for Chiron, should be the first PDF, for the original paper on it) which was originally assumed to be a small planet but is now considered a centaur object. I would imagine that it is a captured Kuiper belt object, but that's just my guess.

[darwiniantheory]

Didn't know he did a RI Lecture :). Fantastic, shall watch all these after boxing day dinner whilst recovering. Happy Christmas all Saganists out there (are we called Saganists?)

[DasIstMeinKampyCouch]

celebrating Carlmas here

[LeonhardEuler1]

@venompangx Part 1 1/6 @2:35

[evanjdanderson]

@9Rayvik9 2 years later, but, I believe the object he's referring to is 2060 Chiron, a minor planet confirmed in 1977.