A Recipe for a Small Planet

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of Earth-like planets. She reveals the ingredients and why she spent time at JPL while in high school.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A recipe for a small planet this week on planetary radio.
0:04.0	Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the final frontier.
0:12.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.0	Planetary scientist and astronomer Courtney Dressing
0:18.0	and her co-authors may have discovered the standard ingredients
0:22.0	and the masses of Earth-like planets across the galaxy.
0:25.0	She'll share her recipe with us today.
0:28.0	Was a Chinese astronomer the first to see a Galilean moon
0:32.0	nearly 2,000 years before Galileo found it.
0:36.0	Bruce Betts will join me for a surprisingly revealing what's up segment.
0:40.0	First up, our senior editor Emily Lockwala, followed by Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye
0:46.2	the Science Guy.
0:47.2	Welcome back Emily.
0:48.2	Why do we find you sitting in a rental car outside of Dulles Airport?
0:52.8	That's right.
0:53.3	I'm here to attend the New Horizons Science Team
0:56.1	meeting.
0:56.6	It's getting so close to encounter time for New Horizons.
0:59.9	They're going to start taking Science Data this month.
1:02.1	So it's time for science team
1:03.1	meeting to talk about the plans and to figure out what's next and to try to
1:06.2	contain our excitement. So here we are about to visit Pluto for the first time in the
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