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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

John Anderson and the Flyby Anomaly

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Move over Pioneer. Now it's the flyby anomaly on planetary radio. Hi everyone,

0:15.0

welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

0:21.0

I'm Matt Kaplan.

0:22.0

What the heck is going on in the universe? Well, we try

0:25.6

to answer that question every week, but this time we really mean what the heck is going

0:30.0

on with physics, dark matter, dark energy, and spacecraft that are going

0:35.0

faster than they're supposed to be after they fly by our Earth.

0:39.0

We'll talk with retired Celestial Mechanic John Anderson about the just published Fly By anomaly.

0:45.0

Bill Nye the Science Guy Waxes poetic about the recent lunar eclipse, get it.

0:50.0

And Bruce Bats will tell us what's to see in the night sky. No Q&A this week, but only because Emily

0:55.9

Lochuwala has a special report on the first rings ever discovered around a moon. And it's a moon of Saturn man some planets get all the luck oh my goodness did you

1:06.8

see that image of a landslide on Mars a landslide that was underway at that very

1:11.5

moment not surprisingly it was the high-rise camera on the

1:15.4

Mars reconnaissance orbiter that got the shot, though it was just a happy accident.

1:20.6

The image and a story are at planetary.org.

1:23.0

Join us next week for a conversation with high-rise principal investigator Alfred McEwen.

1:29.0

As we prepare this week's show, Space Shuttle Endeavor is almost ready for a trip to the International Space Station.

1:35.0

SDS 123 will deliver the first piece of a Japanese built lab and the Canadian-made robotics system known as Dexter.

1:43.8

NASA plans a 16-day mission.

1:46.4

Time to talk anomalies with John Anderson.

1:48.6

That'll be right after this week's visit with Bill Nye. Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society.

1:56.3

A couple of weeks ago, I was not in Pasadena, Planetary Society headquarters as I am right

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