Amateur Astronomers Work To Save Earth From Asteroids!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Seven astronomers have been selected to receive Shoemaker NEO (Near Earth Object) grants from the Planetary Society. They and their observatories span the planet. We’ll meet an American and an Australian. Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts provides an overview of the grant program and later returns for this week’s edition of What’s Up. The Planetary Society’s Kate Howells reports on the outlook for space funding in Canada’s newly-released federal budget. She and Society CEO Bill Nye also met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Learn more about this week’s topics and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0314-shoemaker-newo-2018-winners.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello again everyone. So far so good. Our move to Panoply seems to have been
0:05.5	seamless for nearly all of you. We're grateful and relieved. I can't wait to
0:10.5	reveal our new sponsor next week. It has to do with someone who has been our
0:15.1	guest on planetary radio, though his reputation is shall we say Cosmos
0:20.4	spanning? I will say no more. Here's the show. Amateur astronomers
0:25.2	protecting Mother Earth this week on planetary radio.
0:37.8	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure across our Solar System and beyond.
0:40.7	We'll meet two of the seven dedicated amateur astronomers who have been awarded Shoemaker
0:45.9	Near Earth Object grants in the latest round of competition.
0:50.2	They'll tell us why they spend night after night searching the sky for asteroids that cross the path of our planet and how they do their work.
0:59.0	Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts runs the Shoemaker Neo program, he'll give us a quick overview
1:05.8	and then return for this week's What's Up, Poppery?
1:09.3	Canada is a space leader, but many Canadians believe it should be doing even more on the
1:14.0	final frontier. My colleague Kate Howell serves as the Society's Global Community
1:18.8	Outreach Manager but she's also on the Canadian Space Society's Board of Directors and serves as a member of the government of Canada's Space Advisory Board.
1:28.0	Okay, good to get you on planetary radio to talk about what's going on up in Canada with space plans there.
1:35.0	Shall we begin with this just announced federal budget?
1:40.0	Yes, so this has been a very highly anticipated budget for the Canadian space community because as I've talked to you about on this show previously, we've been busy working on advising the government on a new space strategy.
1:53.4	However, the budget came out at the end of February
1:56.0	and there was no mention of a new space strategy.
1:58.5	So a lot of anticipation led to quite a lot of disappointment
2:01.8	in the space community.
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