Closer and closer and closer to finding another Earth this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Deborah Fisher and Jeff

Marcy have discovered more than half of the over 300 exoplanets found so far,

but new technology is needed to help us sniff out another planet like our own.

Deborah will tell us about an experimental system that may do the trick. She'll also talk about

what it's like to discover new worlds.

Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, will bring us news from space about a deadly bacterium.

No, not the Andromatous strain, just plain old Salmonella, but with a 0-G twist.

Emily Lachto-Wala looks back at the Galileo mission to Jupiter and its tiny probe that plunged into that giant planet's atmosphere.

And there's more good news from Bruce Betts in this week's what's up.

You said enough with the calendars already.

We listened.

It's back to planetary radio t-shirts with this week's space trivia

contest. What another big rock narrowly missed our pretty little sphere? It was just the last week that we told you about a

different close call. This time it was a near-Earth object that's about 15

meters across and it came within 80,000 kilometers of Home Sweet Home.

That's only about twice as far as geostationary satellites.

The story is at planetary.org.

Space Shuttle Discovery's crew continues its work at the International Space Station.

The last set of solar panels were unfurled without a hitch last week,

but there were some other minor problems.

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