Lucy in the Sky With Asteroids

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

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🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A rare alignment of planets and other objects will enable the solar-powered Lucy spacecraft to examine seven asteroids, six of which are among the thousands of Trojan asteroids that orbit ahead of and behind Jupiter. The mission team, include Hal Levison, Cathy Olkin and Mike Sekerak, hope to unlock secrets of our solar system’s origin through these ancient artifacts. Planetary Society correspondent Andrew Jones helps us celebrate China’s Space Day with an update on the Chang’e 4 lunar mission. The space trivia contest returns as just one cog in the universe-spanning machine called What’s Up. You can learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0424-2019-lucy-levison-olkin-sekerak.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lucy in the sky with Asteroids this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	The Lucy Mission will leave for Jupiter before long.
0:21.0	Before it's done, it will have visited seven different asteroids
0:25.1	that may be remnants of our solar systems Genesis. We'll talk with three leaders
0:30.3	of this exciting mission including principal investigator
0:33.7	Hal Levison. Rubber asteroids sure but rubber telescopes? They'll bounce
0:39.6	their way into this week's What's Up segment with Bruce Betts. Happy Space Day of China.
0:44.7	April 24th is the anniversary of China's first successful satellite mission launched
0:50.6	in 1970. We'll celebrate it by checking in with Andrew Jones,
0:54.8	the Planetary Society's Finland-based correspondent,
0:58.0	who closely follows the progress of the ambitious Chinese space program.
1:02.4	Andrew, welcome back for this quick up. of the ambitious Chinese space program.
1:02.6	Andrew, welcome back for this quick update
1:05.4	on the Chinese mission that appears to be doing very well
1:09.1	on the moon.
1:09.5	You wrote about it in a blog post that went up
1:12.4	at planetary.org on April 22nd.
1:15.0	The title is Chang'ev for updates and U2
1:19.7	roves into overtime returns more images.
1:22.9	Well, that kind of captures it right there,
1:24.6	but I guess these two little spacecraft on the surface
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