Asteroid Day! Earth Plays Defense

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A co-founder of the annual, worldwide event, and the leader of the European Space Agency’s planetary defense program mark the 114th anniversary of the Tunguska near-Earth asteroid disaster and the progress we’ve made toward avoiding another impact.

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0:00.0	Happy Asteroid Day, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:10.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure
0:15.0	across our solar system and beyond.
0:18.2	June 30th is Asteroid Day each year, not having been hit by a big one is reason enough
0:25.2	to celebrate, but we'll hear that there's much more to this United Nations sanctioned
0:30.1	event from one of its co-founders, Danica Remi.
0:33.8	Then we'll turn to past guest, Death left Kaushni, Planetary Scientist Impact Expert
0:39.4	and acting head of the European Space Agency's Expanding Planetary Defense Effort.
0:46.4	Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Bats is another passionate defender of our world.
0:51.8	They'll join us for a special what's up segment that could also be called what's not
0:56.3	coming down, at least not yet.
0:59.4	I've got headlines from the latest edition of the downlink waiting in the wings, but there
1:03.9	have been a couple of fresh developments we should mention.
1:07.4	Our first visit to a metal asteroid won't be launching this year.
1:12.4	The software challenges we heard about from Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton
1:16.9	a couple of weeks ago have proved to be too complex to solve during the 2022 launch window.
1:24.0	Our sympathy and best wishes go to Lindy and her team.
1:27.8	The other news story is a Planetary Society scoop contributed by our correspondent Andrew
1:33.9	Jones.
1:34.9	Andrew writes about China's plans for a nuclear-powered Neptune Orbiter.
1:40.0	Make that nuclear reactor-powered orbiter details are at Planetary.org.
1:47.6	You can also see the mission profile for China's plans to return a sample from the Moon.
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