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The First Planetary Defense Conference

This is the first planetary defense conference where we've had data from a planetary defense mission to talk about. Dart is not just a one-off event. It's the start of an era of planetary defense and you really feel that not just at NASA, but at the European Space Agency. We had representatives from Japan and China and Brazil and New Zealand talking all about their planetary defense contributions globally. And it just made me feel, you know, just like, hey, humanity's all right. Well, we'll be sharing a lot more about your adventures and Matt Kaplan's adventures at PDC in an upcoming episode of planetary radio.

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