The 365 Days of Astronomy

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:

- Comet P2016 BA14 was studied by radar from Goldstone, California as it made a 9LD pass by Earth.

- A drought in India & the Caspian Sea has apparently caused an unexpected acceleration in the drift of the North Pole. I hope Santa doesn't mind!

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Description: Many people enjoy watching meteor showers. Digital cameras make it possible to capture photos of meteors in the night sky. In this podcast, you will learn how to capture meteors using a DSLR.

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Short bio: Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the EPO group at NOAO and works on the Galileoscope project ( www.galileoscope.org ), providing design, dissemination and professional development. He also pens a great blog at halfastro.wordpress.com.

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Our Producer/Editor, Richard Drumm, once again grabs an interview just before the December 2016 monthly meeting of the Charlottesville Astronomical Society. Dr. Stierwalt talks about ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio telescope in the Chilean Andes' high plateau. We also chat about the future of radio astronomy and astronomy in general. Dr. Stierwalt also is a podcaster with her "Everyday Einstein" program, which is free on iTunes!

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

Summary of content:

The Discussion: This month we take a look at the recent supermoon and what it takes to make the moon ‘super’; Jeni goes teaching kids about space and hones her exoplanet hunting skills; while Paul’s been hosting events with British astronaut Tim Peake.

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

- An update on Blue Origin’s spaceflight ambitions

- More on Shiaparelli and Exomars part 1

- A NASA Director’s worries about science in a Trump administration

- An Ocean like the Dead Sea under Pluto’s ice sheets

- The roundest object in space

- Could dark energy actually be an emergent property of entropy?

- The dinosaur-killing asteroid may have turned planet Earth inside out

The Hat of Woo: Delving into the rank and putrid world of conspiracy theories to debunk the nonsense that lies within. This month Paul pulls Project Pegasus out of his fetid hat where a young President Obama was part of a team of juveniles used in the 1980s to teleport to Mars and into the past. No, really!

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 go back to Tycho Brahe:

What is a plain regular (non-super) nova? Doug, @DesRon94, Detroit Michigan

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An organ-on-a-chip mimics the functional unit of a human body organ and is created by culturing a few of that organ’s specialised cells on a geometrically-organised scaffold, which is about the size of a microscope slide. A kidney-on-a-chip involves organising some nephron cells into a geometric structure that can concentrate urine. A liver-on-a-chip involves organising some Kupffer cells into a structure that can detoxify blood serum. There’s even a lung-on-a-chip that can mimic the function of alveoli, the gas exchange units in your lung.

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Are wormholes real or what? How did we even start thinking of them? If we could build one, would it be possible to actually, you know, use it? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session and Cathy Rinella for editing.

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Streamed live on Nov 24, 2016.

When Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars he conveniently left out one important aspect: How are we supposed to survive on a place this hostile to life? Seriously. Mars sucks! And it's going to take some impressive techniques and technologies to make it on the red planet.

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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:

- Comets P2016 BA14 PanSTARRS & 252P Linear may be child & parent!

- Asteroid Bennu's orbit has changed slightly due to solar light pressure, the Yarkovsky Force. It may be an way to alter hazardous asteroid orbits to protect Earth.

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Mercury – VERY low – 10˚above the horizon at sunset for about the first two weeks of December.

Venus – Look SW after sunset, and Venus will be about 20˚ above the horizon, very bright, and will set by 8:00pm. If you have a telescope, check out how it changes from a gibbous phase to a larger half Venus.

Mars – Look SSW after sunset and bring a sky map of Capricornus.  Mars will be the ruddy red object moving away from the Capricornus triangle and into Aquarius.  Visible until about 9:00pm, when it sets in the SW.

Saturn – Not visible this month. :^(

Jupiter – Catch Jupiter in the eastern sky in the morning after 3:30am in the beginning of the month, and 2am by the end of the month.  Just look for the very bright object in that direction in the morning.  You should notice it easily and watch it get higher and higher each morning.

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Streamed live Nov 25, 2016.
Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Dean Regas ( @DeanRegas /http://www.cincinnatiobservatory.org/deanregas/ ), has been the Astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory since 2000. He is the co-host of Star Gazers (airing on PBS stations around the world), a Contributing Editor to Sky and Telescope Magazine, and a contributor to Astronomy Magazine. Dean is the author of the new book, "Facts from Space! From Super-Secret Spacecraft to Volcanoes in Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Facts to Blow Your Mind!"

https://www.amazon.com/Facts-Space-Super-Secret-Spacecraft-Extraterrestrial/dp/1440597014

Regular Guests:

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

Yoav Landsman ( @MasaCritit )

This week's stories:

- The cause of the Schiaparelli crash.

- The EM drive. And what it ain't!

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