Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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New Horizons passed through the orbit of Neptune on August 25th. By cosmic coincidence, this was the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s flyby of that big, blue world. We catch Principal Investigator Alan Stern right after a celebration in Washington.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All over the solar system with Alan Stern, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.0	The New Horizons Principal investigator is back
0:25.0	to tell us about another milestone
0:26.8	passed on the journey to Pluto.
0:29.1	This one was a heck of a coincidence.
0:31.8	But Alan is a busy guy, so he'll also talk about Rosetta
0:35.4	reaching its comet after a 10-year trip and a brand new project from his company
0:40.4	called Whingu. Bill Nye will report on why a test of the light sale solar sale has been delayed and Bruce Betts
0:47.8	will help me offer up another opportunity to win the coveted planetary radio 2.1 t-shirt.
0:54.0	I realized after we had finished editing last week's show that Emily Lochawal and I never mentioned
0:59.6	the name of a comet that will be swinging past Mars on October 19th. It's 2013 sighting spring.
1:07.1	And you know that coincidence I was just talking about? Emily also has something to say about
1:12.2	it.
1:12.8	Emily, I know that like me you just watched this conversation by Voyager scientists, people
1:18.1	who were early in their careers when Voyager 2 flew past Neptune and were reminiscing on this this interesting
1:25.2	and provocative really anniversary. Yes it's the 25th anniversary of the Neptune
1:29.8	fly-by and all the scientists who are on the panel that we just watched were young
1:33.8	post-docs or young scientists on the Voyager flybys and now they're much
1:38.6	more senior scientists on the New Horizons mission. The Outer Planets community is really a very small community.
1:45.1	Anybody who was on Voyager is now, most of them are working on New Horizons or are astronomers
1:49.8	studying these things from a great distance, but there's not very many of them.
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