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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: Exploring Near Earth Objects, Asteroids, and Impacts
ROSETTA SWOOPS PAST ASTEROID ON WAY TO COMET
July 19, 2010 Guests: Andrea Acomazzo Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe just performed brilliantly as it encountered asteroid Lutetia. Now it heads for its rendezvous with a comet. Rosetta Operations Manager Andrea Acomazzo... more »
DAWN IS SETTING RECORDS ON ITS WAY TO VESTA
June 21, 2010 Guests: Marc Rayman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Dawn mission chief engineer Marc Rayman returns to Planetary Radio with an update on this amazing mission to the solar system's two largest asteroids. Emily previews Rosetta's encounter with yet... more »
SHOEMAKER NEO GRANT RECIPIENTS PROTECTING OUR PLANET
June 14, 2010 Guests: Robert Holmes, Quanzhi Ye Select Format: MP3 Windows Media With a new round of grants now available, we talk to a couple of past recipients watching for Near Earth Objects on opposite sides of our planet. Bill Nye and Emily Lakdawalla are thrilled by... more »
CAN MIRROR BEES SAVE OUR PLANET?
February 22, 2010 Guests: Max Vasile Select Format: MP3 Windows Media 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... more »
WE'RE ON ASTEROID WATCH WITH JPL'S DON YEOMANS
August 17, 2009 Guests: Don Yeomans Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Asteroid Watch is the new website based at the Jet Propulsion Lab. It's overseen by Don Yeomans, Manager of NASA's Near Earth Object Program Office. Don takes us on a tour of the site as we talk... more »
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AVOIDING ARMAGEDDON: NEW SHOEMAKER NEO GRANT AWARDEES
April 27, 2009 Guests: Dan Durda, Robert Holmes Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Shoemaker NEO Grant awardees get help with their search for and tracking of Near Earth Objects--asteroids that endanger... more »
WILLIAM HARTMANN ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TUNGUSKA'S BIG BANG
June 30, 2008 Guests: William Hartmann Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Early on the morning of June 30, 1908, a peaceful Siberian forest was suddenly leveled by the explosion of a meteor. Scientist, author and artist Bill Hartmann returns to Planetary Radio to talk... more »
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 » |
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