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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Amy Mainzer Is Hunting Asteroids With NEOWISE

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Take a spacecraft that can no longer survey the realm of galaxies and repurpose it to discover thousands of much nearer asteroids and comets. Put it to sleep for 2.5 years, then wake it up and start discovering even more! JPL’s Amy Mainzer is Principal Investigator for NEOWISE, the mission using this amazing space telescope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amy Meinzer and her resurrected asteroid hunter this week 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.

0:23.0

Neo-Wise is back, and Amy Meinzer of the Jet Propulsion Lab couldn't be happier.

0:28.0

We'll talk to her about this repurposed spacecraft that has returned from the near dead.

0:34.1

You can tell Europe from Europa, right?

0:36.8

Don't be so sure your neighbor knows the difference.

0:39.2

That's what Bill Nye will address,

0:41.0

while Bruce Betts waits in the green room for his chance to tell us about the night sky and give away a year in space wall calendar.

0:48.0

Emily Lottawalla just hosted a reunion with several very special young people.

0:53.7

Here she is to tell us about it, but you can also watch the Google Hangout at planetary.org.

0:59.8

Emily, thanks to you, I got to see the somewhat more mature faces of some young people

1:04.9

that I hadn't seen in a long time. Did you have a good time catching up with the

1:09.2

student astronauts? Yeah this was it was really wonderful to see these guys again these kids whether not kids or not

1:15.0

kids anymore. kids anymore, they're all grown up now.

1:16.0

But they were the reason I was originally hired at the Planetary Society.

1:20.0

It was to come and run this education and public outreach project called Red Rover goes to Mars, or at least a part of it,

1:25.8

where we ran contests to select really amazing high school students from all over the world

1:32.0

and bring them inside Mars Exploration

1:33.8

Rover mission operations when the two rovers landed. So we had 16 kids from five

1:39.2

continents and they they came in in pairs in order to experience the actual operations, the science

1:45.1

operations of these two rovers.

1:47.4

And so to see them all again and to see what they've all grown into has been absolutely

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