Commodice and Rest in pieces this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

It really was the comet of the century, you know.

Of course the century is still young, but we'll hear today from Carl Batoms that the science

will get from Eisen is likely to make it one of the greatest comets ever.

Have you read or seen Bill Nye's letter to the president?

Three quarters of a million people had watched the video by the time we finished creating this week's radio show.

Bill will tell us about it in a moment.

Emily Lacawala is at the vast annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

We've therefore given her the week off, but expect a nice report

on the gathering next time. Bruce Betts will be joining me later for What's Up? It's nearly

2014. Time for us to begin giving away the terrific year in space wall calendar

in the space trivia contest.

Bill, where do we find you this week?

Austin, Texas, in the United States. At the Texas Freedom Network is an organization that fights the good fight

to keep science in science textbooks in the Texas school system.

The Texas Freedom Network is generally

religious people, church-going people who are concerned

that science is getting short shrift.

And so they fight the fight.

Well good for them and I'm glad they're giving you an award.

Other recognition that you're getting

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