Welcome again, podcast listeners. It's been a while since I've shared one of these special

pre-show messages with you, but the timing is right. I got this message from

listener Nicholas Panagasser last week out of Las Vegas and you

know how we love to get these special greetings or messages we've got a field for that when people

will enter the contest or just want to write to us about anything else.

at planetary radio at planetary.org. Nicholas had this message.

Now is the most important time for the public to show its support of space exploration

and science in general. Donate when possible and always use the power of social media

to share all the great content organizations

like the Planetary Society provide us.

Nick, thank you, couldn't have said it better myself, and your as I said is perfect because we are

approaching the end of the year and with that in mind the Planetary Society has

created the Planetary Fund. The Planetary Fund is going to accelerate our

progress toward our four core enterprises, revolving around our four core enterprises, and what are they?

robotic space exploration, human space exploration, planetary defense, and the search for life.

In other words, most of what we talk about on this show.

And so it's very, very exciting stuff.

And what is especially exciting is that during this year-end giving period, any

donation, any gift that you make to the society at planetary.org slash planetary fund is

going to be doubled. It'll be matched by a very generous anonymous

member up to $100,000. So there's never been a time like this to donate and there has never been a more important time to help us accomplish what we need to do to promote space exploration and space science in what promises to be a very challenging

year, next year, 2017.

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