The 365 Days of Astronomy

At the Astronomical League Convention ALCon 2016 in Arlington, Virginia, there were many informative talks.

Dr. Reynolds discusses how to distinguish a meteorite from meteorwrong, the general classification of meteorites, and show a variety of meteorites; available to handle after the talk. Some of the questions often asked will be covered, such as the chemistry of meteorites, preparation of samples, and cutting to expose the meteorite’s internal matrix. Some of the recent “hot” topics in meteoritics will also be explored, such as Martian and Lunar meteorites, and the asteroid Vesta – Bilanga meteorite fall confirmed connection.

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

The Discussion: An introduction to star parties and enjoying practical astronomy under pristine dark skies away from the city. As the podcast crew run the AstroCamp star party, which many listeners attend, in the Brecon Beacon’s international dark sky reserve twice a year, we take you through the events, tutorials and workshops we run to help you hone your stargazing skills and win astronomy prizes from the Tring Astronomy Centre.

The Sky guides: In readiness for 3 nights of stargazing in the Welsh valleys, Ralph, Paul and Damien choose objects to look out for this time of year. If you’re not coming to AstroCamp, these are still great night sky treats to try and locate wherever you are in the northern hemisphere.

Ralph’s top choices take in the Owl Cluster, The Double Cluster and the vast North America Nebula.

Damien takes a look at the solar system objects available a little closer to home this month as he runs through the asteroids, dwarf planets and meteor showers on offer to AstroCampers

And Paul finishes out autumnal round up with Herschel’s Garnet Star, the original Cepheid Variable and the magnificent galaxy cluster Stephan’s Quintet.

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What’s the deal with Hawking Radiation? Does it really mean what we think it means? How do black holes form in the first place? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Please forgive the 120 Hz buzz in the audio. Audio can be a bit of a black art at times, but in this case we can point the fickle finger of audio fate at the public address system. We apologize to your eardrums.

Welcome back to our new season of Astronomy Cast! This episode is a special live show that took place at DragonCon 2016 in Atlanta, GA. Pamela hosted a panel of amazing scientists and engineers who all happen to be women, and they discussed the unsung women of NASA and the early Space Age and their roles as “human computers”, and the current climate at JPL for women scientists and engineers. The panelists were NASA JPL Senior Science Engineer Trina Ray, Marshall Space Flight Center’s head of Planetary Science Barbara Cohen, JPL engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory Kim Steadman and Science Systems Engineer for NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Sarah Milkovich. (Please excuse any audio issues, as this was recorded live by remote.)

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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:

- Eric Christianson discovered 2016 AM2, a PHA, a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.

- NASA's NEOWISE Infra-Red comet & asteroid hunter satellite can, in a way, see inside comets by looking at heat. Comets C2015 X8 & C2015 YG1 are 2 comets it has discovered and examined.

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Our plucky Producer (?) Richard Drumm talks to Dr. Garrod before the September CAS (Charlottesville Astronomical Society) meeting at UVa's McCormick Observatory where Dr. Garrod talked about cosmic molecules.

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Streamed live Sep 9, 2016.

Fraser, Morgan and Sondy were all at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the launch of the OSIRIS-REx Mission.
Sondy and Morgan talked about the mission, answered questions about space and astronomy, Cassini.
Just a sneak preview before the Weekly Space Hangout starts up next week.

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In 1968, the cluster of stars in the image in today's album artwork, called Terzan 5, was discovered. It's one of 11 globular clusters, what we astronomers call GCs or globs for short, that were discovered by Agop Terzan, a French/Armenian astronomer.

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treamed live on Feb 16, 2016

The Diversity and Demographics of Distant Rocky Worlds.

Dr. Rogers is a Sagan Fellow at UC Berkley.
The discovery of exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) has brought the settings of many science fiction stories within reach of scientific inquiry. Astronomers’ ever increasing sensitivity to smaller and smaller planets has opened the opportunity for empirical insights into the nature and demographics of distant terrestrial worlds. Up to what size and mass do planets typically have rocky compositions? How Earth-like are these distant rocky worlds? How common are rocky planets in the Habitable Zones of their host stars? In this talk, I will present the current constraints on each of these questions, appealing both to individual planet case studies and to planet population statistics.
Dr Rogers' webpage: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~larogers/Welcome.html

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This week I chat with Rebecca Hartman-Baker of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab about giant computers, computational science, and. . . kangaroo meat.

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