The Solar System's biggest breaking news this week on planetary radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final

frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

What's the sound made by a bunch of excited planetary scientists when they get together?

I don't know, but you'd have heard it last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.

Every year, the top researchers gather to present their latest findings and trade tales of their missions and projects.

We'll get a report from our own Emily Lachto-Wala.

Then we'll hear from Stardust Mission Co-investigator Scott Sanford

about the promising results his team has already begun to get

from that visitor to Comet Villed 2.

Then it's our weekly visit with Bruce Betts,

who will somehow manage to talk about Mars,

Aldeburon, the new space trivia contest,

and fingernails.

Just enough time for a few interplanetary headlines.

What happened to Stardust at home?

Stardust scientist Andrew Westfall says, don't worry, it's coming.

He wants to explain the delayed start of your chance

to discover bits of interstellar dust. The project is a victim of its own success, as Andrew

describes at planetary.org.

You've probably heard that space shuttle discoveries return to orbit has been delayed

thanks to those pesky fuel sensors on the external tank, the new launch window is early to mid-July.

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