Kepler finds Earth-sized planets and lots of them this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Ed Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

New data from the Kepler spacecraft indicates that our warm and life-friendly world may be just

one of thousands upon thousands like it in the Milky Way Galaxy. That's just one piece of

the big news from William Barruki, Kepler's principal investigator.

Bill returns to our show with an incredibly exciting report.

Speaking of excitement, we'll hear from Planetary Society Science and Technology

coordinator Emily Lochuwala about a picture perfect flyby of Comet Temple 1.

Or perhaps I should say picture and sound perfect,

as you'll hear in a minute.

Bill Nye joins us from Georgia Tech University

with his commentary this week and will drop in on

Bruce Betts for a gander at that crowded night sky along with a new space trivia

contest. Emily we need to talk about Stardust Next this week, of course, but I hope can spend more time talking about it next week.

We'll try and give it some special coverage and include you in that conversation if that's okay but give us your initial

impressions and tell us a bit about all the wonderful stuff you've put up on the

blog well I think that my initial impressions are kind of like Joe Vercas he's the

p i on the mission.

He said this flyby was not 100% successful.

It was a thousand percent successful.

I love it.

It was really quite amazing.

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