It’s time for the Perseids meteor shower, Gaia has found hundreds of asteroid moons, Starliner is still in question, and where does the Moon’s atmosphere come from?

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00:00 Intro
00:14 It's time for the Perseids
03:03 GAIA finds asteroids with moons
05:30 Graphene on the Moon
07:26 Starliner still at the ISS
09:52 Polaris Dawn Launch Date
10:32 Planets forming around binary stars
13:02 Vote results
13:42 China created a lot of space junk
15:54 Moon atmosphere
17:38 More space news
18:25 TRAPPIST-1

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[Space Bites] China's Space Junk // Graphene on the Moon // Best Meteor Shower Is Here