Emily Lachowala's special report from the DPS meeting this week on planetary radio. Radio. Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Ed Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

DPS, that's the Division for Planetary Sciences.

One of the two big meetings each year that pulls in lots of the worldwide researchers who study objects like asteroids, comets, moons, and planets.

We'll get Emily's wrap-up in a couple of minutes.

All my conversations with Bruce Betts are eccentric, but this week's

what's up will really go off center. You'll see what I mean, but first

let's go straight to Bill Nye to get this week's show underway.

Bill, welcome back to the show. I think you should talk about the

Juno spacecraft, which had a big day last week. Big day. It got slingshot around the Earth.

And this is really rocket science man so I went to

Cape Canaveral in 2011 for the launch of Juno now Juno strangely enough is not an

acronym. Juno was Jupiter's wife in mythology and so it's a spacecraft on its way to Jupiter.

Like everybody else, you're on a budget, so they bought an Atlas 5 rocket, they sent the

thing out beyond the orbit of Mars, and it fell back toward the Earth,

and actually, if I may, toward the Earth's Sun system.

And last Wednesday, psho, got slingshot around the earth taking the tiniest, tiniest bit of energy

from the Earth's orbit, which is sending it on the way out to Jupiter, escaping the gravity of the Earth and the Sun. Amazing thing. It arrived

there in 2016. I love how you put that. It reminded me that all things are

conserved, the Earth is ever so slightly slower now because we have a mission going to

Jupiter. That's right but you're talking about something like the on the order of

10 to the minus 23rd whatever units you'd be messing with meters per second, something like that.

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