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World Service,27 Jun 1997,13 mins

The Smallest Bodies in the Solar System

Seeing Stars

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Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute on asteroids, comets, small bodies in our solar system and the Kuiper belt. (Medical) Dr Michael Martin-Smith on his proposal for the UK's Humble Telescope, a telescope for amateur astronomers. Plus what was happening among the stars and planets in July 1997. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1997.

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