Solar System Revelations, and the World’s Biggest Telescope Threatened?

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Emily Lakdawalla returns from the annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting with big news from around the solar system. Then we talk with science journalist Traci Watson about the departure of the great Arecibo radio telescope’s Director and the funding challenge that could shut down the observatory.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The latest planetary science and Arasebo in Jeopardy, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm
0:15.2	at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. A special report today from Emily
0:19.6	Lacawala just back from the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences with a
0:25.1	head full of discoveries to tell us about, then we'll talk with science journalist
0:29.8	Tracy Watson about what could be the beginning of the end for the world's biggest
0:34.5	single telescope, the giant Arasebo radio dish in Puerto Rico. Bill Nye has the
0:40.1	week off while he tours the world for his new book
0:42.8	Unstoppable.
0:44.2	A side note now, most of the content for today's show was recorded
0:48.6	before we learned of the horror in Paris.
0:51.9	Our thoughts this week are with all Parisians and the French
0:54.8	people we stand with you. Here is the Planetary Society senior editor Emily
0:59.6	Lockwala. Emily welcome back. I know you're back home from DPS.
1:04.3	You've had some time to think about it, and you certainly did a good deal of writing, blogging, and
1:08.9	tweeting while you were there.
1:10.9	Where shall we start as we go through some of the highlights?
1:14.0	Well, let's start with Pluto as far away as we can get from Earth.
1:17.0	New Horizons, of course, just flew past in the summer,
1:20.0	and this was the first science meeting where scientists had a chance to present to other
1:23.8	scientists what they found when they got there. Okay what really stood out? I mean the
1:28.8	the data continues to trickle out and it's been getting big headlines. What was new?
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