Planetary Radio Live: Near Earth Objects—The Killer Asteroid Threat

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🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Leaders of the quest to find, understand and protect ourselves from the asteroids and comets called Near Earth Objects gathered with host Mat Kaplan for a live conversation about this existential threat from space.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Killer Asteroids on stage this week on Planetary Radio Live.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society
0:12.0	with more of the human adventure across our
0:14.9	solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	A special treat today and a long one as we present nearly every second of last week's live show.
0:24.0	Get ready for more than 90 minutes with leaders of humanity's quest to find and
0:29.1	understand near-Earth objects, as we also learn how to deflect the killers among them,
0:35.3	we'll go back to our regular format next week. It began on Thursday evening
0:40.4	February 16th in the heart of Pasadena, California.
0:44.1	Well, that's a good start.
0:50.6	Welcome, everybody.
0:51.6	This is Planetary Radio Live. I am thrilled to be back here in Southern
0:58.0	California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum. We're just like a mile or two from Galactic Headquarters of the Planetary Society.
1:06.8	We are joined and I'm talking now to those of you who are watching us live streaming and I'm
1:12.0	told also on Facebook live tonight at the
1:14.8	S.E. P. Facebook channel. So welcome, but we are have with us a whole bunch of great
1:21.0	space fans. Are you guys ready to meet any asteroid or comet head on?
1:25.9	Absolutely, yeah. Give yourselves a hand. You know, we do this show on a weekly basis, but when we get the chance, we kind of crawl out of the studio, and we love to come out and do it in front of happy space fans, enthusiasts like yourselves.
1:41.5	We also have some terrific experts
1:45.2	who are going to be spending some time with us this evening.
1:47.4	And as you're going to hear, they're not just scientists and leaders.
1:51.2	They are truly defenders of our world and I think that's something that
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