Saving Earth: Asteroid Emergency Tabletop Exercise at the 2013 PDC

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 6 May 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The last installment of our Planetary Defense Conference coverage makes a deep impact as hundreds of attendees participate in an asteroid mitigation exercise. You’ll hear from astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweikart, Near Earth Object expert Don Yeomans, Cathy Plesko of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and many more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join us as we save the Earth or die trying this week on planetary radio.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:21.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with the final installment of our Planetary Defense Conference
0:26.4	coverage and it's the most exciting yet.
0:29.6	In a couple of minutes we'll join a group of scientists, engineers, and others who've been told
0:34.6	they need to figure out how to keep a huge asteroid from hitting our home planet.
0:39.8	We'll hear from astronauts Ed Luan, Rusty Schweicherd at the V-612 Foundation, Don Yeomans of JPL, Kathy
0:46.4	Plessco of Los Alamos National Labs, and many more in this
0:55.0	time with the show.
0:56.0	Emily Lachtoala is away this week, but Bruce Betts is here for another installment of
0:57.4	what's up, this time with special guest Mike Pousio and his father.
1:02.0	Mike is the nine-year-old who just won the contest to name the asteroid
1:06.2	that will be visited by the Osiris Rex spacecraft. We'll begin our journey
1:10.6	with Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye.
1:13.7	Bill I want to start by acknowledging what is just a lovely photo of you and the
1:19.2	President of the United States at the White House.
1:21.9	Well, thank you, thank you, yes, the president got to shake my hand again.
1:27.0	Once again, that lucky guy.
1:29.0	No, it really is something.
1:30.0	It was at the White House Science Fair.
1:32.5	So no matter how you feel about this administration,
1:35.5	they are embracing young people in science
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