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MORE PLANETARY RADIO LIVE WITH MIKE BROWN
June 14, 2011
Guests: Mike Brown
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More fun from last week's show in front of a big Pasadena audience. Mike "Pluto Killer" Brown tells Bill Nye and Mat Kaplan about why he is looking forward to our first close-up view of that former...  more »

PLANETARY RADIO LIVE! FEATURING MIKE 'PLUTO-KILLER' BROWN
June 6, 2011
Guests: Mike Brown
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PlanRad goes in front of an enthusiastic Pasadena audience with Mike Brown, author of "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming," Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy, and award-winning...  more »

MIKE BROWN'S NEW BOOK: HOW I KILLED PLUTO AND WHY IT HAD IT COMING
December 13, 2010
Guests: Mike Brown
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The CalTech discoverer and destroyer of worlds celebrates his new book with a party. PlanRad is there to talk with him. Emily Lakdawalla laments the orbital insertion failure of a Japanese Venus...  more »

EASY COME, EASY GO: ASTRONOMER MIKE BROWN ON OUR EIGHT-PLANET SOLAR SYSTEM
August 28, 2006
Guests: Mike Brown
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CalTech's Mike Brown returns to Planetary Radio to talk about the International Astronomical Union's new definition of a planet, one that downgrades Pluto and some of Mike's discoveries to "dwarf"...  more »

MIKE BROWN, DISCOVERER OF 2003 UB313...PLANET 10?
August 15, 2005
Guests: Mike Brown
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CalTech Planetary Astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues have outdone themselves with discovery of what may be the solar system's tenth planet, far beyond Pluto. He talks with us about the recent...  more »

FAR OUT SEDNA
March 22, 2004
Guests: Mike Brown
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It's big, and it orbits farther from the sun than any solar system object yet discovered. CalTech's Mike Brown and his co-discoverers want to name it Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the cold deeps....  more »