We're on Asteroid Watch With JPL's Don Yeomans
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 17 August 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're on asteroid watch this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. There's a new website designed to keep |
| 0:26.1 | you up on the latest news and science regarding those space rocks that are found throughout |
| 0:31.0 | our solar system. It's just a matter of time before some of the bigger |
| 0:34.6 | rocks have an encounter of the violent kind with our delicate planet. Don Yeomans of JPL returns |
| 0:40.8 | to tell us what we'll find at Asteroid Watch. |
| 0:44.7 | Emily Lachto-Wala continues the deep dive into Jupiter. |
| 0:48.1 | She began last week. |
| 0:49.7 | She'll reach the core of the matter in this installment of Q&A and I'll help Bruce Betts celebrate |
| 0:55.7 | our friend Marvin the Martian as we examine the night sky and hear another random space |
| 1:01.1 | fact in what's up. |
| 1:03.2 | You'll also want to get in on Bruce's new contest. |
| 1:05.6 | What would you tweet to Marvin or any other alien? |
| 1:09.9 | Not including the one stuck in District 9 of course. |
| 1:13.2 | Bill Nye, the planetary guy, is out of town and has the week off. |
| 1:18.1 | My colleague Amir Alexander has a couple of great news stories posted at planetary.org beginning with news from the Kepler exoplanet |
| 1:25.8 | finding spacecraft that we've talked about on this show. Even though it is still in its |
| 1:30.2 | shakedown phase, Kepler has managed to analyze the atmosphere of a known |
| 1:35.2 | exoplanet, a so-called hot Jupiter. Then there's Wasp 17. That's the shorthand |
| 1:41.9 | name of yet another exoplanet just found. |
| 1:44.8 | This one is going the wrong way. |
| 1:47.3 | Every other planet we know of orbits in the direction that its star rotates. |
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