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Can Mirror Bees Save Our Planet?

Air Date: 02/22/2010
Run Time: 0:28:52

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Guests:

• Max Vasile, , University of Glasgow

Topics:

Researcher Max Vasile and his team want to show that a fleet of spacecraft they call "Mirror Bees" can use sunlight to divert a killer asteroid. He'll tell us how this week. Emily takes us to Saturn with the best of the Planetary Society blog. Bill Nye says WIMPs are anything but and Bruce Betts is back from Vienna with a bad cold and a great Planetary Radio t-shirt to give away in the new space trivia contest.

Related Links:

• A New Way to Deflect a Dangerous Asteroid
• Cassini Observes Iapetus
• Updated Cassini Tour Page
• Cassini at Mimas
• Largest Crater in South America Discovered
• Planetary Defense Issue of The Planetary Report

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