Heidi Hamill, with the story behind the new Jupiter Impact, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final

Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Something sure slammed into

Jupiter about three weeks ago, exactly 15 years after a comet smacked the king of local planets, astronomer Heidi Hamill

studied that earlier bombardment and she's all over this one as you'll hear.

Our other big news, Emily is back.

Ms. Lochuwala is ready to pick up where she left off, answering your questions

about the Cosmos in her Q&A segment, which will be followed by my weekly visit with

Bruce Betts to learn what's up in the night sky.

It's a jam-packed edition of Plan Rad, so let's get underway by turning to the science and

planetary guy for his commentary about gas stations in space.

I'll be right back with Heidi Hamill.

Hey, Bill Nye, the Planetary Guy here, Vice President of Planetary Society,

and this week, along with all the talk about retiring the space shuttle

and the new administrator, Charles Bolden,

people are finally talking about what to do next.

What's the next cool thing and I wrote a blog for the planetary society website

in case you didn't read it which I know is possible I talked about this idea of

having refueling stations way up, way out, way beyond low Earth

orbit in and around what are called Lagrange Points.

And these Lagrange Points, it turns turns out are places where the gravity of the moon and the gravity of the earth and the gravity of the sun are just about almost exactly in balance and sure enough there's little clouds of dust in these

places where

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