Nobel Prize Winner Michel Mayor…and More

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Astronomer and astrophysicist Michel Mayor has just been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics. Listen to Mat’s 2016 conversation with this revered scientist, the first to discover an exoplanet. The Beresheet mission’s Yoav Landsman recently visited Planetary Society HQ and spent a few minutes catching up with Mat. And Society Editorial Director Jason Davis introduces The Downlink, our weekly digest of planetary news. Bruce Betts takes us to a moon of Uranus to find the melancholy Dane. Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1009-2019-michel-mayor-yoav-landsman.html

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0:00.0	2019 Nobel Prize winner Michelle Meyer this week on planetary radio. Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	It was in April of 2016 that I sat across from Dr. Myor for a conversation about the very first discovery of an exoplanet,
0:27.0	a world revolving around a distant star.
0:30.0	Now he has been named a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
0:34.4	We'll bring back that great conversation and we'll add a brand new one with
0:39.0	Yowav Landsman, senior systems engineer at Space IEL, and the Deputy Mission Manager for the Barrasheet
0:46.2	Lunar Lander Mission.
0:48.3	Yoav was in Southern California this week to pick up a million dollar check from the X Prize Foundation.
0:54.0	Then we'll visit a moon that pays tribute to the Bard as we visit with Bruce Betts.
1:00.0	First though a very welcome announcement for my colleague planetary society editorial director Jason Davis
1:06.2	Jason if listeners to planetary radio find this new service as useful as I think I'm going to
1:15.9	Then we have a lot to be grateful to you for. Tell us about the downlink. Yeah, the downlink is a new planetary exploration news round up from the
1:20.8	planetary society. The motivation behind it, you know, there's a lot that happens each week in planetary news, you know, either new discoveries on worlds or just regular old mission news, you know, we have like 20 different spacecraft, more than 20 actually,
1:35.1	out exploring the solar system. So there's a lot to keep up with and we have such a small team here as you know and we
1:41.1	can't keep up with all the news and you know there are a lot of good
1:43.8	websites out there that already cover the news so what we wanted to do is just offer a
1:48.1	quick roundup of all the things that you might have missed during the week and just kind of run them down every Friday and say here's some blinks if you want to go learn more
1:56.8	Here's some resources maybe the Planetary Society has and just kind of offer this little service to get everybody caught up.
2:03.3	Another great thing about this is that you are linking out to follow up on other sites,
2:10.8	you know either going to the source of a story or to some of those other places that may have
2:15.8	covered this story that we can't.
2:17.6	Yeah, yeah, and you know, a lot of it sometimes is just on Twitter, you know, we, I follow a lot of space reporters as you do that you might have a little
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