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Astronomycast, episode 351, asteroid adventures.

Welcome to Astronomycast for weekly facts based journey through the cosmos for help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, the director of CosmoQuest.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Great. Welcome back to the 2014-2015 season of Astronomycast.

And isn't this... so this is 2014, so this is our eighth season we're starting.

Yeah. Eight years of Astronomycast coming at you.

There are people that have started college and gotten their master's degrees while we've been doing this.

Totally. I would love to hear some stories. Oh, you should totally email us.

Yes, actually that's an awesome idea.

If Astronomycast has somehow influenced your educational career and you started early on and you've been proceeding through it, let us know.

Emilece it info at astronomycast.com. We'd love to hear it.

So if you're hearing this, hopefully you will have already heard our live DragonCon episode which will have gone out in the feed at some point in the last few days.

So I hope you enjoyed that. And that is a taste of things to come.

Alright, let's get going. So Astronomycast 2014, 2015 season begins with Rosetta's arrival at comet 67P.

Surey, surey-gurry. I would like to see a comet up close in personal.

What will it take to explore, exploit and enjoy the asteroids and comets hurtling around our solar system?

And how does science fiction have it all wrong?

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