I want to draw your attention to our
weekly podcasts, coordinated and hosted by Assistant Editor Jeremy McGovern. Available under the “perspectives” section on our home page, the podcasts have commenced to rave reviews from listeners. Thus far, we have featured such diverse topics as
Pluto’s demotion (addressed by Mike Brown of Caltech, Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, and discoverer Clyde Tombaugh’s widow Patsy); the
latest on exoplanets from Senior Editor Rich Talcott; Associate Editor Francis Reddy on
the future of solar system exploration; editors Michael Bakich and the undersigned on
meteorites; and Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Michigan on his recent
planetary-mass-object discovery. Check them out!