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Solar System: Strange Worlds
Season 51
Episode 10
From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular rings of Saturn, discover how the effects of gravity produce the amazing variety of weird worlds in our solar system.
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- Wednesday Oct 9, 9:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Thursday Oct 10, 2:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Friday Oct 11, 12:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Sunday Oct 13, 10:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Monday Oct 14, 1:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Plus
- Monday Oct 14, 8:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Oct 15, 2:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Oct 15, 8:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Oct 15, 2:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Oct 15, 3:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal
- Tuesday Oct 15, 4:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Tuesday Oct 15, 9:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Wednesday Oct 16, 5:00 AM PDT on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Saturday Oct 19, 7:00 PM PDT on PBS SoCal Encore
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