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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Exploring Near Earth Objects, Asteroids, and Impacts
SAVING THE PLANET: THE APOPHIS MISSION DESIGN COMPETITION
March 3, 2008 Guests: Bruce Betts, Louis Friedman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Special coverage of the conclusion of The Planetary Society's international competition to design a mission that would "tag" asteroid and near-Earth object Apophis. Bill Nye the Science Guy is... more »
A NEAR MISS FOR MARS AND BILL NYE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MERCURY!
January 14, 2008 Guests: Don Yeomans Select Format: MP3 Windows Media A fifty meter asteroid will narrowly miss Mars according to Don Yeomans, Manager of the NASA Near Earth Object Program Office. We talk with Don at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the more than... more »
ION ENGINES DRIVE DAWN TO ASTEROIDS VESTA AND CERES
December 24, 2007 Guests: Chris Russell Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Dawn spacecraft is on its way to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, powered by its ion engines. Principal investigator Chris Russell leads the international team behind it. He joins us for a... more »
DEEP IMPACT RETURNS FOR AN INTERPLANETARY THREE-FOR-ONE
July 9, 2007 Guests: Mike A'Hearn Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Deep Impact wowed the world with its explosive investigation of a comet two years ago. Now the spacecraft has been given a new mission that combines two very different tasks. We talk with then and... more »
A NEW DAWN FOR INTERPLANETARY EXPLORATION
July 2, 2007 Guests: Marc Rayman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Dawn Discovery Mission Project System Engineer Marc Rayman joins us to talk about this revolutionary spacecraft's journey to the two largest objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Emily... more »
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEAR EARTH OBJECTS
June 11, 2007 Guests: Peter Birtwhistle, James McGaha Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The Planetary Society has just named seven more recipients of Shoemaker NEO (Near Earth Object) Grants. We check in with two past awardees to hear how they contribute to the worldwide watch for... more »
EUROPE'S ROSETTA ON ITS WAY TO A COMET
March 12, 2007 Guests: Gerhard Schwehm Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Project Scientist Gerhard Schwehm reports on Rosetta's recent successful flyby of Mars and what's in store for the spacecraft even before it goes into orbit around a comet and launches a lander. ... more »
STEVE OSTRO AND THE END OF RADAR ASTRONOMY?
January 1, 2007 Guests: Steve Ostro Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Our conversation with JPL scientist Steve Ostro continues as we learn about the proposed budget cuts that may end research at the two greatest radar astronomy instruments on Earth, Arecibo and... more »
STRANGE INVADER: STEVE OSTRO EXAMINES NEAR EARTH ASTEROID KW4
December 25, 2006 Guests: Steve Ostro Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Steve Ostro is a radar astronomer at JPL. His modeling of near-Earth binary asteroid KW4 has revealed one of the weirdest objects ever found in our solar system. Emily Lakdawalla is taking pictures... more »
HELP US FIND STAR DUST AT HOME!
May 1, 2006 Guests: Andrew Westphal Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Stardust mission researcher Andrew Westphal returns with news about what the spacecraft brought back to Earth, and how the public will help find more. more » |
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