Hello again podcast fans it's your fellow space cadet here

Matt Kaplan with another secret message for all of you as you're about to hear I

really did run out of time in today's show didn't get to run any headlines at all, although there is some

news built into the show, including from Bruce Betts during the What's Up segment.

I hope you don't mind that too much.

There was just too much there was too much there that I didn't want to cut I just thought

there was a lot of good stuff in today's show hope you will agree. One note you'll

hear us talk at the end about OPT, Oceanside Photo and Telescope, the donor of the Grand Prize for

the upcoming sixth anniversary contest that we hope you all will enter, and I did want to let

you know that OPT is in the midst of its annual we pay the tax sale.

It runs until October 27th, I believe. You can check it out online with them, of course, at

W. opt-corp.com. I guess that's it for now. Here's this week's

edition of Planetary Radio. We're sailing to another Mercury flyby this week on planetary radio.

Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

We have so much show for you this week that I only have time to tell you that our guest is Sean Solomon,

the principal investigator for the

messenger mission to Mercury. The spacecraft gloriously completed its second

fly-by of first rock on October 6th. We've got Emily Lachto-Wala and Bruce Betts too, but let's jump right in with

this news from Bill Nye. I'll be right back with Sean.

Hey, Bill Nye, the planetary guy here, Vice President of Planetary Society, and I just want you to know that I'm in

Boston for a meeting of the planetary society board, and I can tell you that the society is getting

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