Welcome to another edition of Planetary Radio Extra. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary

Society and I'm very glad that you've joined us for this unprecedented

conversation with four of my colleagues at the society. You've heard from all of them individually,

but not till now have all of them gathered for the sort of discussion that I hope

will be enjoying over the next hour or so. Our topic is 2015 just as it

was for the last regular episode of planetary radio in that year. So fasten your

seat belts. It's going to be a fast and fun ride as we talk with senior editor Emily Loch Duwala,

Director of Advocacy Casey Dreyer, Digital Editor Jason Davis,

and Director of Science and Technology Bruce Bats.

Hi everybody.

Hey, hello.

Emily, what is the first of your top stories from the year just past?

We'll let you introduce it and then everybody else

who will have a chance to jump in. Well you know me Matt I hate to pick favorites but I don't think

there's any question what the most exciting mission event was of 2015 and that was the new horizons fly by of Pluto.

We've been waiting for this one for so very long.

Pluto and all of its moons actually surprised us with how exciting they were and so we're going to be

spending 2016 getting most of the rest of the data down but what what we have on the

ground shows us that Pluto is a bizarre place with all these different kinds of

landscapes and Sharon is a really cool

looking moon with volcanic planes and a red cap and and it was just very exciting to be

there and I'll be very excited to continue reporting about this mission.

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