Which moon is your favorite? We'll help you decide on this week's Planetary Radio Book Club edition.

Welcome readers of books about our solar system and the cosmos beyond. I'm Matt Kaplan, senior communications advisor for the Planetary Society

and former host of Planetary Radio. We're keeping it in the family this time as we welcome our

beloved colleague Kate Howells. It's Kate's new book, Her Second, that we made our October

2025 selection, and it's mostly what we'll talk about

today. That book is titled, Moons, the mysteries and marvels of our solar system. You can watch

the video of our conversation on the Planetary Society website. We've got that link on this

episode's page at planetary.org slash radio.

That said, we can dive right into the live conversation I had with Kate in the

Planetary Society member community.

Hey, everybody, we're back. It's the Planetary Society Book book club welcoming you once again here we are

with our special guest for this evening someone who should be familiar to at least some of you

kate howells my wonderful colleague science communicator extraordinaire is the society's public

education specialist.

That title really only begins to describe all that she does and has done for you folks,

our members, and for others.

Do you read our excellent newsletter, The Downlink?

Well, that's Kate.

She puts that together every week.

I'm especially impressed, though,

by her service as the editor of the Planetary Report, our award-winning print and digital magazine.

I also want to tell you that I really believe that you very admirably hold up a tradition, the creation of the magazine,

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