Saving the world, one asteroid at a time, this week on Planetary Radio.

Welcome.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar

system and beyond, Rusturki lives in Minnesota.

His astronomical colleague, Alessandro Nastasi, is more than 8,000 kilometers or 5,000 miles

away in Sicily.

But that separation can't compare to the distance to the objects they study.

These amateur astronomers spend nearly every clear night watching the skies for space rocks

that cross our planet's path.

They'll tell us about their work.

We'll also welcome my colleague, Ray Paletta, in a couple of minutes.

Ray has written an article reviewing the big questions we have about Venus and the spacecraft

that may provide answers.

UFOs are back in the headlines, even if the US government now prefers to call them unexplained

aerial phenomena or UAPs.

Planetary Society Senior Space Policy Advisor, Kasey Dreyer, will share his thoughts

about how to evaluate what Carl Sagan called extraordinary claims.

A special welcome this week to science rules listeners, our boss at the Society Bill

and I asked us to fill in while he's away.

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