The 365 Days of Astronomy

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Streamed live Dec 13, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Dr. Emilio Enriquez is a Post Doc at the Berkeley SETI Research Center and a member of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative ( http://seti.berkeley.edu/listen/ ). Emilio is the lead author of two recent SETI Research Center publications about Ross 128 b, the nearby exoplanet that researchers feel may have conditions that are conducive to life.

His expertise is in modelling of physical processes in galaxies, such as gas accretion onto galaxies, star formation, stellar feedback, gas accretion onto black holes, among other similar mechanisms. He also works with large multi-wavelength surveys of galaxies to study the connection between galaxies and their central super-massive black holes.

Regular Guests:

Dr. Morgan "Sniffles" Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )

This week's stories:

- Breakthrough Listen will be scanning 'Omuamua.

- New Horizon's target (2014 MU69) could have a moon!

- New Shepard flies again!

- Another Russian launch failure.

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A guide to the winter sky and questions about the science of sci-fi with special guest Michael Solomon.

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Produced by Greg Moebius at WCBE Radio Columbus.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars:

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

The Discussion: Jeni gets her name in lights – well, bold print as she contributes (what else but graphs) to a published research paper and Ralph takes a look at Ben Cacase’s very own new asterism in the heart of Auriga and reads a defiant message from Michelle of ‘ze resistonce’.

The News: It’s a very rocky month as we round up the following space and astronomy news stories:

Earth’s moon had an atmosphere thicker than Mars’ for more than 70 million years

Observations suggest Proxima Centauri has a Kuiper Belt and maybe a Oort Cloud

A sci-fi like asteroid from another star system is now passing through the inner solar system

Hat of Woo / Astronomy Concept Mash-up: This month Paul’s festering Hat of Woo is a little less fetid as we discuss a plausible but untested concept that has just a faint whiff of woo about it. This month we look at The Nemesis ‘Theory’ which suggests the sun has a brown dwarf companion which causes periodic extinction events – and, of course, we’re long overdue an extinction and NASA are covering it all up!!!

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we’re tackling a question about meteor showers and how we calculate their orbits:

I was wondering if all known meteor showers are definitely associated with a comet? Also, how do astronomers determine the orbit of a comet using just a few locations on the sky?

Ben Cacase, Manhattan, New York via email.

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This week we turn our steely gaze upon the red planet Mars, but we haven't forgotten our promise to share some highlights from our time at the ICON Comics and Games Convention.  We even indulge in a little hoax busting, picking a fight with an old scam that just won't die.The first segment is the next in Cathrine's series on The Planets.  In these recordings, she talks first about the mythology behind the names of the planets, and then discusses the actual worlds themselves.  Mars, as it turns out, was a little more complex than our usual "God of War" image.  And when we look at the science, it turns out to be a spectacularly badly named planet.

Then we cut to our time at ICON 2017.  As previously mentioned, we ran a stand on behalf of the ScopeX telescope and astronomy expo, to promote it and get people to come visit in September.  While there, we got to chat to a lot of people, who had quite a varied range if interests.  A few of them consented to let me record our conversations, and I've tried to stretch my editing muscles a bit in the way I presented them.  I'm reasonably happy with how it came out, and hopefully you'll like it too.  If you'd like to see the photos referenced, they're part of Dawie Venter's gallery on the ASSA website.

We then return to Mars, addressing a 14-year-old (at time of recording) hoax email that says that Mars will be passing extra close to Earth, and will appear as large as the full Moon.  It's nonsense, of course, and I first wrote about it years ago.

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Streamed live Dec 8, 2017.
We've always been fans of science fiction, but we really like our science. Today we'll talk about some books we've been reading recently that do a good job of dealing with the science in science fiction.

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006.

Today's 2 topics:

- Meteorite hunting can be a fun pastime! It's easy, though, to get fooled by a "meteorwrong", so you might need help identifying the real thing.

- Dr. Grauer found 16 NEO candidates in 9 hours (!) with the 60" Mt. Lemmon telescope. One of them is 2017 FU90, 100' diameter, and a possible space-mining target.

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Rob Sparks hosts. Leonor Opazo, Administrative and PA/EO Outreach Manager, discusses the education and public outreach programs of NOAO South in Chile at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and works on the Galileoscope project ( www.galileoscope.org ), providing design, dissemination and professional development. He blogs at halfastro.wordpress.com. You can see his photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/halfastro

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Streamed live on Dec 6, 2017.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Regular viewers of the Weekly Space Hangout will remember Dr. Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ / @BrianKoberlein ) as one of our regular weekly contributors. Today he joins us as our Special Guest to discuss an exciting new television project he is working on, Big Science, in conjunction with Full Kilt Pursuits.
Per their website: "BIG SCIENCE is a proposed television series about pioneering research sites around the world. More importantly, it’s about the diverse team of people who make science happen."

Regular Guests:

Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )

Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

This week's stories:

- Farthest quasar!

- Voyager 1 fires up its TCM thrusters after 37 years!

- Plate tectonics on Europa.

- Here comes the Geminid meteor shower!

- Has dark matter been detected? (The Kraken says "No!")

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SpaceX engines catches fire (in the wrong way), naming a frozen rock, and of course answers to your questions!

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Produced by Greg Moebius at WCBE Radio Columbus.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars.

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

What to look out, and up, for in December, nipple-deep in frost.

Ralph, Paul & Jen pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the solar system objects on offer to observers and imagers:

- The Geminid meteor showers peaking on 13/14th December.

- Uranus sitting in the constellation Pisces.

- Mars & Jupiter lunar conjunctions.

Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year.

Ralph – A binary star, a plaetary nebula and 4 open clusters in Gemini

Jen – The Pleiades open cluster in Taurus

Paul – The Crab Nebula supernova remnant also in Taurus

And we finish this sky guide with December’s moon phases.

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