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EUROPE'S ROSETTA ON ITS WAY TO A COMET
March 12, 2007
Guests: Gerhard Schwehm
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Project Scientist Gerhard Schwehm reports on Rosetta's recent successful flyby of Mars and what's in store for the spacecraft even before it goes into orbit around a comet and launches a lander. ...  more »

STEVE OSTRO AND THE END OF RADAR ASTRONOMY?
January 1, 2007
Guests: Steve Ostro
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Our conversation with JPL scientist Steve Ostro continues as we learn about the proposed budget cuts that may end research at the two greatest radar astronomy instruments on Earth, Arecibo and...  more »

STRANGE INVADER: STEVE OSTRO EXAMINES NEAR EARTH ASTEROID KW4
December 25, 2006
Guests: Steve Ostro
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Steve Ostro is a radar astronomer at JPL. His modeling of near-Earth binary asteroid KW4 has revealed one of the weirdest objects ever found in our solar system. Emily Lakdawalla is taking pictures...  more »

HELP US FIND STAR DUST AT HOME!
May 1, 2006
Guests: Andrew Westphal
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Stardust mission researcher Andrew Westphal returns with news about what the spacecraft brought back to Earth, and how the public will help find more.  more »

NEWS FROM THE 37TH LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE
March 20, 2006
Guests: Emily Lakdawalla, Scott Sandford
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Emily Lakdawalla reports on the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, while Stardust co-investigator Scott Sandford describes exciting results.  more »

A GREAT WEEK FOR SPACE EXPLORATION
January 23, 2006
Guests: John Spencer, Andrew Westphal
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Andrew Westphal on what's been found in the Stardust Sample Return Capsule and John Spencer on the New Horizons launch and the upcoming Jupiter flyby.  more »

STARDUST SAMPLES STREAK SAFELY HOME
January 16, 2006
Guests: Andrew Westphal, Don Brownlee
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Special coverage of the return of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule, featuring Andrew Westphal of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab, and...  more »

COUNTDOWN TO SAMPLE RETURN: A STARDUST SPECIAL
January 2, 2006
Guests: Don Brownlee
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With just days to go till the Stardust spacecraft returns comet and interstellar dust to Earth, we present excerpts from a NASA media briefing. ...  more »

STILL MAKING A DEEP IMPACT, WITH JESSICA SUNSHINE
December 26, 2005
Guests: Jessica Sunshine
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Spectroscopist and Deep Impact co-investigator Jessica Sunshine reviews the wonders revealed by Deep Impact's smack down with more »

JAPANESE HAYABUSA PROBE REACHES ASTEROID
September 19, 2005
Guests: Junichiro Kawaguchi, Bruce Murray
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Project Manger Junichiro Kawaguchi celebrates the arrival at asteroid Itokawa, with further insights provided by former JPL Director Bruce Murray. Q&A on ice volcanoes, and a new trivia contest on What's Up.  more »