Click above to listen to part 3 of Space Rocks!, featuring Mark Showalter, planetary scientist and Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute and a member of the New Horizons team, looking forward to the January 1, 2019 New Horizons flyby of the trans-Neptunian Kuiper Belt object officially designated as 2014 MU69, but better known by its nickname, Ultima Thule.
Space Rocks!:
Part 1: Roger Launius / Space Exploration
Part 2: J.L. Galache / Asteroid Mining
Part 3: Mark Showalter / Ultima Thule
Part 4: Avi Loeb / ‘Oumuamua Or…?
