Europe's Rosetta On Its Way to a Comet
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2007
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Landing on a comet this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm at Kaplan. |
| 0:22.0 | Rosetta visited Mars just two weeks ago. |
| 0:25.6 | It's one of many whistle stops on a 10-year four and a half billion mile |
| 0:30.5 | journey to a comet. This week we'll meet the missions project |
| 0:34.2 | scientist. Gerhard's fame will tell us about that very successful swing past |
| 0:38.9 | the red planet and where Rosetta goes from here. |
| 0:42.5 | Emily Lochuwala has found the heartbeat of Saturn. |
| 0:44.9 | She'll play it back for us during her Q&A segment. |
| 0:47.4 | And she'll tell us what that rhythm is telling scientists about the ringed planet. |
| 0:51.8 | Bruce Betts has a tale to tell about the night sky culminating in another chance to win |
| 0:56.3 | the coveted and highly fashionable spring edition of the Planetary Radio T-shirt. |
| 1:02.1 | It's a busy show and we only have time for a few space |
| 1:04.4 | headlines beginning with bad news for anyone who'd like to find near-Earth |
| 1:08.8 | objects before they find us. The US Congress asked NASA to come up with a plan to find the |
| 1:14.8 | 20,000 or so biggest killer asteroids, but they haven't come up with the money to |
| 1:19.8 | pay for the search. On the other hand the planetary society has just named the |
| 1:23.4 | latest winners of Shoemaker Neo grants. The seven researchers in five |
| 1:27.7 | countries will use the funds to aid their searches for the rock with our |
| 1:31.8 | address stamped on it. |
| 1:33.2 | Both stories are at planetary.org where you'll also find Emily's blog. |
| 1:37.6 | She writes about one place on Earth that still considers Pluto a planet. |
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