He discovered the first extra solar world, Michelle Myore this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm

Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. I was thrilled to sit down with the man whose

team made the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star. You'll hear our

conversation in a few minutes. Have you seen the amazing video of Blue

origins latest sub-orbital flight? Bill Nye has and he'll share his thoughts.

Who is best in show?

Bruce Betts will help me celebrate the winners of our like-of-the-dog acronym contest.

We begin, as usual, with the latest from senior editor Emily

locked-o-walla.

Emily, it's a return to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week and to

series that huge object in the asteroid belt,

which apparently according to your March 30th entry in the blog

at planetary.org, we now have lots of data about and a lot of pretty pictures that some of which you've included but not a whole lot of understanding.

That's true mostly because scientists just haven't had time to digest all of the data that's come back from series.

There is an awful lot of it.

So Don has been examining series for more than a year now, first on a long approach where it saw

a series is just a pretty small world tumbling in the distance and then it entered orbit and began to survey it and has been getting lower in lower orbits and finally now is in its low altitude mapping orbit.

And it has just completed a global map of the entire world

at 35 meter resolution.

It boggles my mind because the satellite image data that I first learned how to process

for Earth was 30 meter resolution.

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