Deborah Fisher and the ever-expanding search for new worlds this week on

planetary radio.

Welcome to the travel show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,

Ace Planet Hunter Deborah Fisher of Yale University is back

to tell us about her team's work on an astounding new instrument.

She's joined this time by Postdoctoral associate Tyler McCracken.

Bill Nye takes a break this week so that we can get a space policy and budget update from Casey

Dreyer and I hope you'll stick around for the little green man of this week's

what's up segment. I had to catch Emily Lochuala on her cell phone.

The Planetary Society's Senior Editor was spending the day at the jet propulsion lab.

Hi Emily, what's going on today at JPL?

Well, I'm at the Mars Comet NASA Social and Matt, I just saw an ion engine working with the

blue glow, it looked like light saber it was so incredibly

awesome I've never seen that before it was great now I happen to know that you said

that the guy runs that lab listens to planetary radio and invited us to come by so tell him I will be there shortly.

I will.

Tell us, speaking of comments and other stuff out there, in this case, asteroids,

what did Dawn learn at Vesta? This is something you've

written about, terrific article, posted to the blog on October 9th. Don learned a lot at

Vesta after all it's a class of body that's never been visited by a spacecraft

before it's really way too big to call it an asteroid but it's a bit small to call it a

planet so it's somewhere in between. Some of the things that Don learned are

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