The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews
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Consider the spot where you’re sitting. Travel backwards in time and it might’ve been submerged at the bottom of a shallow sea, buried under miles of rock or floating through a molten landscape. But go back about 4.6 billion years, and you’d be in the middle of an enormous cloud of dust and gas orbiting a newborn star. What exactly is this cosmic dust? Lorin Matthews investigates.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Lorin Swint Matthews
- Director Frederic Siegel
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Frederic Siegel
- Sound Designer Frederic Siegel
- Music Alon Peretz
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Editorial Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
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