The Royal Astronomical Society at 200
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
“The object of THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY shall be the encouragement and promotion of Astronomy, Solar-System Sciences, Geophysics and closely related branches of science.” That’s what you’ll find on the website of the RAS. Its mission has changed little in the two centuries since it was founded by some of Britain’s leading scientific minds. Don’t miss the UK Poet Laureate’s poem in honor of the RAS at the end of this week’s episode. We also offer a tribute to the late Margaret Burbidge, one of the 20th century’s greatest astronomers. Learn and explore more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0422-2020-ras-200th-margaret-burbidge.html
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| 0:00.0 | The Royal Astronomical Society turns 200 this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:15.8 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:18.1 | Hoping you and yours are well. |
| 0:19.9 | We're off to London for a virtual visit with two leaders of the oldest continuously operated |
| 0:26.2 | astronomy organization on our planet. |
| 0:29.3 | And in moments we'll enjoy a special tribute to a long time member of the RAS, the late Margaret Burbage. |
| 0:37.0 | There's a sweet little RAS related Easter egg at the tail end of this week's show. |
| 0:43.0 | Before we get to the downlink headlines, |
| 0:44.7 | I've got a special invitation to share. |
| 0:47.2 | I hope you'll join us on Thursday, April 30th, |
| 0:50.5 | at 1 PM Pacific, 4 PM Eastern and 200 hours UTC for the very first |
| 0:56.7 | what's up live. Bruce Betts and I will tell you more during this week's |
| 1:01.5 | regular what's up segment or you can check out planetary.org |
| 1:05.4 | slash live. If you heard my conversation last week with NASA Administrator Jim Brightenstein, you were |
| 1:12.2 | among the first to learn of a new Earth-sized |
| 1:15.1 | planet in its stars habitable zone. More of this story is at planetary.org |
| 1:20.6 | slash Downlink, as is our story about the Mars helicopter that has now been |
| 1:25.4 | attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. We've covered developments of this little flying machine here on the show. |
| 1:33.4 | NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meyer, as well as Russia's Oleg Scrippachka, |
| 1:39.2 | have returned to Terra Firma from the International Space Station. The next two ISS visitors are |
| 1:44.9 | likely to be the first astronauts to catch a ride on a SpaceX crew dragon. That |
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