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🗓️ 15 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Searching for extraterrestrial technosignatures among the stars, this week on Planetary Radio. |
0:12.0 | I'm Sarah Alahmed of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
0:19.0 | Are we alone in the universe? It's one of the greatest mysteries, but we're about to share a new opportunity to join in the search for life off of Earth. |
0:28.0 | This week, Jean-Luc Margot and Megan Lee from UCLA join us to discuss the release of their Planetary Society's Step Grant-funded Volunteer Science Project to search for intelligent life off of Earth. |
0:40.0 | The Planetary Society's Kate Howles will take a look back at the Chelyabinsk Meteor event as we pass its 10th anniversary. |
0:46.0 | And Bruce Betts will let you know what's in the skies this week and what's up. |
0:51.0 | In Space News, NASA and ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, announced last week that they will expand their cooperation. |
0:59.0 | The partnership will involve joint efforts and civil space activities, including training an Indian astronaut at NASA's Johnson Space Center and future cooperation on NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which sends research payloads to the Moon aboard Commercial Lunar Landing Vehicles. |
1:17.0 | Astronomers using the Kalar Alto Observatory in Spain have detected a new Earth-like exoplanet that orbits in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 31 light years away. |
1:27.0 | The habitable zone, or Goldilocks Zone, as some people like to call it, is the region around a star where conditions are suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface of planetary bodies. |
1:37.0 | We don't yet know if there's water on this newly discovered exoplanet called Wolf1069B, but it is the six closest Earth-mass habitable zone exoplanet ever discovered. |
1:48.0 | The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, has made an unexpected discovery. |
1:53.0 | A team of European scientists observed a previously unknown asteroid measuring around 100 to 200 meters in diameter. |
2:01.0 | That's approximately 320 to 650 feet across. |
2:05.0 | The discovery was made when they were looking at calibration images from the Space Telescope's observations of a completely different asteroid in the main belt. |
2:13.0 | These kinds of small main belt asteroids aren't well studied because they're so hard to observe, but once more, JWST has proven its ability to change the game. |
2:22.0 | You can learn more about these stories in the February 10th edition of the Planetary Society's Weekly Newsletter, the downlink. |
2:29.0 | Read it for free or have it sent to your inbox every Friday at planetary.org slash downlink. |
2:34.0 | This episode is scheduled to release on February 15th, 2023, which just happens to be the 10th anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Meteor event. |
2:43.0 | Kid House, our public education specialist and Canadian Space Policy Advisor, has just written a new article marking this anniversary, and she's here to share more about what happened on that faithful day a decade ago. |
2:55.0 | Hi, Kid! What happened on that day 10 years ago? |
2:58.0 | First of all, I will say I cannot believe it's already been 10 years, because I remember when this happened, and it does not seem like that long ago, but that's time for you. |
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