Hello again podcast listeners it's your friendly host Matt. I thought

us something earlier today that I wanted to put in one of these little

special podcast messages to you and don't worry the show's coming right up. I get such a

kick out of hearing from listeners who become members of the Planetary Society

which of course you can do at planetary.org

slash membership. And I love to hear from them and then write back to them to

thank them. So I just wanted to say if you're considering becoming a member and of

course we hope every one of you is and you go ahead and do it let me know right to me at

planetary radio at planetary.org so that I can send you a personal thank you because I love to do that

when that happens but I don't get like an automatic notification of it. I do hear when someone

donates to the show or designate of it listeners who become members. Unless you tell me, please consider doing a review as well. iTunes

is a good spot to do that. Let's get on to talking about asteroid day and asteroid week. By the way, the Linley Johnson who is mentioned,

Linley is the planetary defense officer who works for NASA. So I just want to

clear up that mystery before it hits you.

Happy asteroid Day from Planetary Radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure

across our Solar System and beyond.

Asteroid Day falls on June 30th each year. We'll celebrate it with Tim Spar, the former head of

the Minor Planet Center, who has discovered many of these fascinating objects. Later Bruce Batts

will tell us how to apply for the Planetary Society's in avoid the fate of the dinosaurs. Bill Nye is worried about how we'll communicate with rovers on the Martian surface

once aging orbiters finally fail, and digital editor Jason Davis is ready right now to take us out to planets 7 and 8, where

only one robot has gone before.

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