2012 DA14 coming soon to a planet near you and to planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

It isn't every week that a 45 meter space rock nearly

nicks our world. That's why we're focusing once again on near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14. You'll hear highlights from a NASA press conference along with

comments from Bill Nye and DA14 random space facts from Bruce Betts.

Emily Lochuala is looking elsewhere in the sky. She's our planetary evangelist.

Emily, a couple of very interesting things to talk about, both of them involving resources,

one of which I don't think you knew existed but first tell us about these

newsletters that go way back to the Galileo Mission. That's right this is actually my

second blog post on the Galileo messengers the first one was about a year ago in which I covered

the phase of Galileo's mission development from a blueprint to launch, which was a terribly difficult

and challenging phase. Well, the next phase was from cruise to Jupiter arrival

and that was just as terrible and difficult

because of course this was a mission that had a high-gain antenna

that was supposed to unfold like an umbrella and it didn't.

And that was just to unfold like an umbrella and it didn't.

And that was just one of many problems that it faced during its crews from Earth to Venus,

back to Earth twice and then to Jupiter.

And so this mission, it was difficult to read the newsletters newsletters but in the end kind of fun to summarize them and now I'm looking forward to its orbital mission as

chronicled in JPL's newsletters. So that's in the blog. It's a February 5th entry in Emily's list of blog posts. Let's go to one of the

more recent ones, slightly more recent, from the 8th of February. It's a whole new

resource. Well not new really, but new to you, I guess.

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