African Eyes Look to the Cosmos
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
One people, one sky. That motto belongs to Astronomers Without Borders. Its founder and retired leader, Mike Simmons, recently brought a guest to Planetary Society headquarters. Olayinka Fagbemiro is with the Nigerian space agency and also heads Astronomers Without Borders in her nation. Emily Lakdawalla tells us about four exciting planetary science missions that are currently competing for selection by NASA. Bruce Betts tells us about the search for 100 earths as he also asks us to find a citizen of Middle Earth in space. Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0304-2020-fagbemiro-simmons-awb-nigeria.html
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| 0:00.0 | Turning young African eyes toward the Cosmos this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:17.0 | Mike Simmons stopped by the other day, the founder and just retired leader of Astron without borders brought along a very special |
| 0:25.3 | guest. |
| 0:26.3 | He'll introduce us to O'La Yinka Fagbemiro of the Nigerian Space Agency. |
| 0:31.2 | O'La Inca is also National Coordinator for Astronomers Without Borders Nigeria. |
| 0:37.0 | Together they'll tell us that the night sky unites all of humanity. |
| 0:42.1 | Four new missions have made it to the next step in the long road |
| 0:44.9 | towards selection by NASA. Emily Lochawala will introduce them to us and |
| 0:49.7 | Bruce Bats brings back his favorite game, |
| 0:52.6 | Where in the Solar System, |
| 0:54.7 | with a tip of the Habitat to Middle Earth. |
| 0:57.7 | It's almost here, the new expanded version |
| 1:00.1 | of the Downlink will premiere on Friday, March 6th. |
| 1:03.6 | You'll see it at planetary.org slash Downlink, |
| 1:07.0 | which is also where you can be one of the first |
| 1:09.1 | to sign up for the newsletter. |
| 1:11.4 | Here's a sampling of the space headlines Jason Davis collected for the most recent edition. |
| 1:16.6 | The largest unnamed world in our solar neighborhood now has an official moniker. It's Gong, named after a Chinese water god. Gong |
| 1:26.6 | Gong may be a bit larger than Pluto's companion, Sharon. The body's discoverers |
| 1:32.0 | ask the planetary society to help with a public selection process, |
| 1:35.9 | Gong Gong won by a two to one margin, and the name has been accepted by the International |
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