Planetary Radio • Oct 17, 2011
All-Star CalTech Panel Discussion: Moving an Asteroid
On This Episode

Louis D. Friedman
Co-Founder and Executive Director Emeritus for The Planetary Society

Tom Jones
Astronaut for Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Rusty Schweickart
B612 Foundation Chairman and Apollo 9 Astronaut

John Lewis
planetary scientist

Bill Nye
Chief Executive Officer for The Planetary Society
Why bring an asteroid closer to Earth? Don't we want to push them away? Both goals are considered by Lou Friedman, Tom Jones, John Lewis, Bill Nye, and Rusty Schweikart in highlights of a recent public discussion. Move over James Bond. Emily Lakdawalla busts some secrets about planetary science and so-called embargoes. Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan have no secrets except the new space trivia contest answer in their What's Up segment.
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