Adam, thanks for taking time to talk to us on this planetary radio special edition.

First of all, tell us where you are right now.

Well, Matt, I am staying at Arisebo Observatory, which is in Puerto Rico. I'm staying at Arisebo Observatory, which is in Puerto Rico.

I'm staying in the visiting science scientist quarters, which is just north of the

Observatory and it's basically a hotel in the middle of the rainforest.

And it's absolutely gorgeous.

You basically step outside in the morning and you're surrounded by nature and then you go and do science.

If you ever get a chance to visit, which I'm sure you will, you really must.

One of the nice things that they do for you is the V.S.Q, where you stay is has a very powerful, a very powerful air conditioning

unit. And so if you want to you can just stay indoors all day at a balmy

15 degrees Celsius and just literally chill out.

Sounds good to me.

Let's get this out of the way up front.

How incredibly envious I am and how much I want to you know put a checkmark next to

erasebo on my on my bucket list. Is this your first time there? No. I was here

last year observing two objects, 2010ny65 and 1566 Igris.

And this year I'm back observing 2010ny65 again. Both times have been absolutely incredible experiences for me.

We had Dante Loretta, he's the principal investigator for the Osiris Rex

asteroid sample return spacecraft. He was on the show just last week and he talked

about how vital the radar observations of asteroid Bennu. That's his target, have been

for his mission.

And he's not alone and worrying about losing this tool,

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