A Man, A Planet, A Tenal: Panama!

Published: Dec. 14, 2009, 8 a.m.

b"While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, we\\u2019ve let one of our own planets slip away! Find out why Pluto\\u2019s demotion to dwarf status created a public uproar as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reads us his hate mail. From third-graders!\\nAlso, how we might find Earth-like planets\\u2026 the possibility of life on Saturn\\u2019s moon Titan\\u2026 and TED Prize winner Jill Tarter\\u2019s vision for finding E.T.\\nAnd, the man who made it all possible: 400 years of Galileo and the telescope. Part of our series for the International Year of Astronomy.\\nGuests\\n\\n\\nNeil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist, Head of the Hayden Planetarium, and author of The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan Stern - Planetary Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, lead investigator on NASA\\u2019s New Horizons Mission\\n\\n\\nJeffrey Van Cleve - Astronomer at the Kepler Mission Science Office\\n\\n\\nCarolyn Porco - Planetary scientist and Lead for NASA\\u2019s Cassini Mission\\n\\n\\nJill Tarter - Director of SETI Research at the SETI Institute\\n\\n\\nAndy Fraknoi - Astronomer at Foothill College and author of Voyages Through the Universe (with CD-ROM, Virtual Astronomy Labs, and InfoTrac )\\n\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"