Amateur Astronomers Avoiding Armageddon: New Shoemaker NEO Grant Awardees
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 27 April 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Amateur astronomers avoiding Armageddon this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final |
| 0:20.3 | Frontier. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, which is just awarded its latest |
| 0:26.0 | batch of Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants. We'll talk with Planetary Scientist Dan Durdock, |
| 0:32.0 | who headed the selection process and with the first |
| 0:35.2 | double awardee Robert Holmes, director of the Astronomical Research Institute. |
| 0:41.1 | Bruce Betts will join us from Spain for this week's what's up view of the night sky. |
| 0:46.1 | Big news away to on the Planetary Society website where there's an article about discovery of the smallest |
| 0:52.3 | exoplanet yet, just twice the size of Earth, and yet |
| 0:56.6 | another found in the so-called habitable zone. |
| 1:00.7 | And then there's a story that is just as exciting for some of us. |
| 1:04.0 | Please welcome to Earth Sonaya Rose Lachto-Wala, |
| 1:08.0 | born Thursday, April 23rd. |
| 1:11.0 | Sonaya and her mom, Emily, are fine and now you know I will have a classic |
| 1:16.1 | Q&A for you later today. Here's Bill Nye. |
| 1:20.0 | Hey Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society, and this week I'm all excited about electricity from space. |
| 1:30.0 | Pacific Gas and Electric, which is a big utility in California. |
| 1:34.1 | California, as you may know, is a state as big as the eastern seaboard of the United States. |
| 1:39.3 | What's made a deal with Solarin Corporation to beam energy from outer space to Fresno County, which is the eastern |
| 1:48.7 | part of California, gather up this microwave energy from an orbiting station in space and put it on the power |
| 1:56.4 | lines, make it into electricity for transmission. |
| 1:59.2 | It'll run your computer and your light bulbs and maybe your radio. You see the thing is this has been around a long time. We'll |
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