Planetary Radio Live at the New Horizons Pluto Encounter

Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla, Linda Spilker, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Emily returns to provide the latest news from New Horizons as it voyages beyond Pluto. We close, as usual, with What’s Up and a new space trivia contest.

Related Links:

• Watch the Complete Planetary Radio Live Pluto Encounter Webcast
• New Horizons: Awaiting the Data
• New Horizons Mission
• Jim Bell
• Mike Brown
• Linda Spilker

This week's prizes are a fabulous Planetary Radio t-shirt and a 200-point iTelescope.net account for remote use of their worldwide network of telescopes.

This week's question:

As of July 14th, what was the unofficial name given by the New Horizons team to the dark feature that some have also unofficially called “The Whale?”

To submit your answer:

Complete the contest entry form at http://planetary.org/radiocontest or write to us at [email protected] no later than Tuesday, July 28th at 8am Pacific Time. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Last week's question:

What was the mass of the plutonium flown on New Horizons?

Answer:

The answer will be revealed next week.

Question from the week before:

Of the five moons of Pluto known before New Horizons, which two moons have a mythological family relationship?

Answer:

Pluto last passed outside the orbit of Neptune in 1999.