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episode 112: Planetary Science and Comets
This is the first of two episodes recorded at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. This episode has two interviews. The first one, with Mark Sykes, the director of PSI, is about the PSI and planetary science in general. The second interview is with Beatrice Mueller about her research area, comets.
- Planetary Science Institute
- International Astronomical Union | IAU
- Planet (WP)
- Pluto (WP)
- CERES
- Dawn Mission: Dawn – Home Page
- 4 Vesta, Asteroid (WP)
- NASA – New Horizons: Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
- Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory)
- XCOR Aerospace – suborbital spacecraft, rocket engines and more
- NASA – MESSENGER – Unlocking the Secrets of Mercury
- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WP)
- Goldilock zone (WP)
- Ion Propulsion (WP)
- Dr. Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg
- Planet (WP)
- Asteroid (WP)
- Meteoroid (WP)
- Near Earth Objects (WP)
- Kuiper Belt Objects (WP)
- Comet (WP)
- Oort Cloud
- Comet Hale Bopp (WP)
- Coma (WP)
- Albedo (WP)
- Giotto Spacecraft (WP)
- Comet Hartley 2 (WP)
- Cyanogen
- Centaur (WP)
- Observing At Kitt Peak
- Rosetta Spacecraft (WP)
- Comet Hayabusa (WP)
- Deep Impact Spacecraft (WP)
- Stardust Mission (WP)
- Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 (WP)