NASAs New Planetary Defense Office

Published: Feb. 2, 2016, 5:46 a.m.

Lindley Johnson has just been named NASA's first Planetary Defense Officer. He's joined on this week's PlanRad by astronomer Kelly Fast, the new manager of the Near Earth Object Observation Program. Emily Lakdawalla presents her \u201cWhat\u2019s Up in the Solar System\u201d mission review for February. Bill Nye has birthday greetings for Voyager\u2019s Ed Stone. Bruce and Mat learn that finding your way across the galaxy with pulsars can be very entertaining. Related links are here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2016/0201-lindley-fast-pdco.html