Amateur Astronomers Work to Save Earth!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 15 October 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Amateur astronomers up all night protecting Earth this week on |
| 0:10.0 | planetary radio. on Planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:22.0 | This week we'll get a report on the Shoemaker Neo-D. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:22.8 | This week we'll get a report on the Shoemaker Neo-Grant program that is helping many amateur |
| 0:27.6 | astronomers and a few pros discover and track the near-Earth objects that could threaten our world. |
| 0:34.7 | It will begin with an overview from our own Bruce Betts. |
| 0:38.0 | Emily Lachwais on her way to the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Union's |
| 0:42.2 | Division for Planetary Sciences or |
| 0:44.5 | DPS, so we'll jump directly to the CEO of the Planetary Society, Bill Nye |
| 0:49.8 | the Science Guy. By the way, we'll have a special report from DPS next week. |
| 0:55.0 | Bill, I want to welcome you back from Italy and you've already dived right back in to, what do you call |
| 0:59.9 | this, an advocacy campaign? |
| 1:02.4 | Advocacy, that's what we call it, trying to restore or make sure the funding for |
| 1:06.9 | planetary science is in the budget in the coming fiscal year, |
| 1:11.8 | budget for the fiscal year 2014. |
| 1:14.8 | It's talking about about 300 million US dollars |
| 1:18.5 | every year for the next five or six years, |
| 1:21.6 | which is by US budget standards, Matt, not that much money, but if you're one of the people who make |
| 1:28.8 | spacecraft that go to extraordinary destinations in the solar system, It's a big deal. We're |
| 1:34.7 | encouraging our members of the planetary society to take action and we've got |
| 1:38.7 | suggestions. You know we've had people write to. That was very effective, the US Congress. |
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