NASA’s New Planetary Defense Office

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 “What’s Up in the Solar System” mission review for February. Bill Nye has birthday greetings for Voyager’s 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