A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

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🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mass determined. Jason also talks with Mat about our ever-expanding knowledge of these worlds that circle faraway stars.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's like Mars, but it's far, far away this week on planetary radio.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:12.9	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.3	We're talking about Kepler 138B, and the amazing science
0:19.9	that has revealed the size and mass of this little world that is 200 light years from
0:24.9	our home.
0:26.1	The SETI Institute's Jason Rowe will give us the lowdown.
0:29.4	Bruce Betts will be along shortly to join me for the What's Up segment and your chance to win the space trivia
0:35.0	contest.
0:36.0	We'll go now to senior editor Emily Loch Duwala.
0:39.2	She's not quite 200 light years away, but she is at the center of the planetary exploration universe
0:45.1	this week, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland, where the New Horizons
0:50.5	mission is controlled.
0:51.5	Emily, first of all, tell us the scene there.
0:54.4	Where are you at APL?
0:56.4	I am at the Kasyakoff Center, which is their education center.
1:00.4	It's absolutely buzzing here because they have both the media and the friends and
1:04.4	family here. There are hundreds of people around all equally excited about the
1:07.8	approaching flyby of Pluto. Wow and are they just going to be hanging out
1:11.6	there right through the actual flyby?
1:14.7	I think they are and probably a lot more people besides.
1:17.6	So it's going to be pandemonium, but a very happy kind of pandemonium.
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