Hey everybody it's another mini awesome cast I'm Mike Sorgat, Sorgatron on the Twitter for this cold cold cold Friday March 6 2015 in Pittsburgh TA. Today we're going to talk about places that are even colder than what it is here actually. The verge reporting that a NASA probe is orbiting a dwarf planet for the first time ever. They go into this about how planets like in this case series and Vesta is another one that they already took a look at according to this. This is more in the asteroid belt these are considered dwarf planets. Apparently according to this they were on our way to becoming a planet the way that Pluto has been classified and unclassified. I guess we're screwed up by the gravitational pull of Jupiter and I guess they find themselves between Jupiter and Mars if you want to get some solar system geography going there. This is really interesting because this is not a planet it's something that's different than just sending something to Mars and actually a little further if I'm correct. This is an exciting time if you're like me grew up kind of in the shadow of the space race. Nothing was really happened and we of course you know in the 80s I mean I think things were kind of slowed because of the challenger around around the mid 80s. And it's really interesting to see some of these coming to fruition that that you know we are getting probes out there we are getting these images we are investigating the rest of our solar system around us and it's going to be slow going before we get to the science fiction future they were all looking for of course but these are the steps and every time you see a story like this come out and it seems like we're getting this after so so little it seems like you know we're getting stories like this all the time about you know probes landing on Mars and with the images coming back they did a Google map street view of what they found on Mars you know or like the little bit that they've gone through there and that's that's amazing you know we're we're seeing different worlds you know if not through you know if only through digital eyes but still and and you know there was going to be a lot there because they had to launch all these probes and then start getting information back from and they had to get where they're going right and and I think we're still watching probes here and there um but you know that's a large time investment and now starting to pay off and it's really cool that that we get to see um this kind of stuff come through and yeah it seems like it's just a giant rock but you never know you never know so what do you think of the current state of the space race of our exploration of the stars or at least our solar system I guess uh let us know here on the YouTube comments uh youtube.com slash in awesome cast get all the links over awesome cast.net and please let us know on Twitter at awesome cast or find some Facebook and Google plus as well and we'll see you guys next time have a good weekend. It's show is a member of the Sorgatron Media podcast network find out more at sorgatronmedia.com