Best of First Up for Monday 7 December

On today's pod: a planetary scientist on why the ambitious mission to get asteroid rock is so important; we catch up with Kiwi golfer Adam Taylor who's been playing four rounds of golf a day over the last week for charity; family of those who died in the Whakaari White Island eruption say it's been a battle to get grief counselling following the tragedy and the Government ruling out a travel bubble with the Cook Islands before Christmas means there's only one vet to treat all the animals in the island nation.