Hope for Pluto—Should We Re-Redefine Planets?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 8 March 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hope for Pluto, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:14.2 | solar system and beyond. Kirby Runyon is ready to challenge what it means to be |
| 0:19.6 | a planet. He says our solar system has over 100 objects that qualify. |
| 0:26.0 | You'll hear his reasoning in a few minutes. |
| 0:28.0 | Bruce Betts will help me deliver a very late Valentine's Day present |
| 0:32.0 | direct from the Lover's asteroid. |
| 0:34.6 | Bill Nye has the week off, but Planetary Society digital editor Jason Davis is here to tell us |
| 0:40.5 | about a company that wants to take passengers to the edge of space, or nearly so. |
| 0:47.0 | Jason, I'm going to bet that even for this audience of space geeks that we have for planetary radio, |
| 0:52.2 | a lot of them have not heard about |
| 0:54.4 | worldview, but you'll be telling them about them in this blog post which is |
| 0:58.7 | coming out just about the time the show becomes available at planetary.org. |
| 1:02.1 | Give us an overview. Yes, so this show becomes available at planetary.org. |
| 1:02.8 | Give us an overview. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, so they fly under the radar a little bit |
| 1:06.9 | because it's this novel concept. |
| 1:08.9 | They take balloons and launch them into the stratosphere. |
| 1:12.6 | These balloons, mainly right now, are doing scientific research. |
| 1:16.2 | You can either do remote sensing, so all the stuff you do from satellites only you're doing it from a balloon, |
| 1:22.0 | which is a little closer to the ground. |
| 1:25.0 | And in the future they want to do humans. |
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