Planetary Radio • Jun 30, 2015
Saving the Planet: Voices From the Planetary Defense Conference
On This Episode

Linda Billings
Consultant to NASA’s Astrobiology Program and Planetary Defense Coordination Office

James Burke
Project Manager, Ranger program

Paul Chodas
Manager, NASA NEO Program Office for Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tom Jones
Astronaut for Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Nahum Melamed
Project Manager for Aerospace Corporation

Jason Reinhardt
MacArthur Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow for Stanford University

Travis Brashears
Undergraduate Student for University of California, Berkeley

Philip Lubin
Professor of Physics for University of California, Santa Barbara
We’ve already brought you Planetary Radio Live from the 2015 PDC near Rome, Italy. Now you’ll hear a small sampling of the scientists, engineers, policymakers and media experts who spent five days considering how humanity will respond to a potentially disastrous threat. Bruce Betts celebrates the great Jupiter-Venus conjunction in What’s Up. Bill Nye and Emily Lakdawalla return next week.

Related Links:
- 2015 Planetary Defense Conference
- 2015 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
- Aerospace Corporation/JPL Online Near Earth Object Simulation Tool
- VIDEO: Planetary Radio Live at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference
- VIDEO: Asteroid Threat Simulation at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference
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