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🗓️ 18 July 2005
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Come at Temple One's secrets revealed by Deep Impact. This week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
0:20.8 | I'm Ad Kaplan. The University of Maryland's Lucy McFadden is our happy but utterly |
0:26.8 | swamped guest. The Deep Impact co-investigator barely knows where to begin with 4,500 images sent back by both parts of that |
0:35.7 | probe and bundles of additional data. We'll hear what she and the team have |
0:40.7 | figured out so far. Bruce Betts manages to mix Shakespeare, Fish, |
0:45.8 | and a new trivia contest in this week's What's Up segment. You just have to hang |
0:51.0 | around to see what I mean. |
0:52.8 | And while you're hanging, here's a handful of helpful headlines. |
0:56.3 | Okay, this one is great. |
0:57.9 | Everybody knows gas giant planets can't possibly form in a three-star or trinary system, right? |
1:05.0 | Except a Caltech astronomer has just found one, 149 light years from Earth. |
1:12.0 | Planets, planets everywhere, and a variable in the Drake equation bites a little more dust. |
1:17.0 | Details are at planetary.org. |
1:20.0 | While you're there, you can check out the latest cool images from Cassini, the spacecraft whizzed by within just |
1:26.6 | 170 kilometers, or barely 100 miles from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. |
1:34.0 | Looks like it's going to be at least Saturday the 23rd before Discovery can lift off on its return to flight mission. |
1:41.0 | NASA engineers are still figuring out the problem with the fuel |
1:44.7 | sensors in the big external tank attached to the space shuttle. What is a ring occultation? Here's a hint. |
1:53.4 | It has nothing to do with that flawed cubic zirconia |
1:56.3 | you bought your significant other. |
1:58.7 | Let Emily help you figure it out. |
2:00.4 | I'll be right back with Lucy McFadden. |
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