A SETI false alarm on planetary radio.

A SETI false alarm on planetary radio.

Hi everyone, welcome back to the only travel show that tours the Galaxy.

I'm Matt Kaplan.

If only it had been the real McCoy, Dan Werthheimer, chief scientist of the

SETI at home project, returns to tell us that the rumor of a phone call from ET.T. was a wrong number. Dan has other news about the search

for extraterrestrial intelligence, including a new era ushered in by something called Boink.

Later on, another What's Up Look at the Sky and the newest Space Trivia Contest from Bruce Batts.

First up are these headlines from The Final Frontier.

Another amazing announcement regarding the search for extra solar planets.

A team of European and American astronomers has unveiled the first ever image of what may be a planet circling another star. The teams are now

making sure the object really is a giant planet rather than a very small

companion star. The effort to recover solar wind samples from the crashed

Genesis spacecraft continue in the Utah desert. Scientists and engineers seem more

confident every day about their ability to turn what appeared

to be a tragic ending into Phoenix-like success.

And Bert Rutan's spaceship one is being readied for another record-breaking flight from the

Mojave desert. This one will be the first of two required to win the Ansari

X Prize of ten million dollars.

Get the details of these and many other stories on the web at planetary.org.

I'll be back with Banworthheimer of SETI at home right after this from Emily. Hi, I'm Emily Loch Dowalla with questions and answers. A listener asked,

Is the Moon the only body in the solar system that keeps just one side facing its parent planet?

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