The 365 Days of Astronomy

This week our host, Dr. Paul Matt Sutter, chats with meteorologist Marshall McPeek of WSYX ABC-6 and WTTE FOX-28 about weather forecasting, computer models, and. . .waving your arms around.

Special thanks to WSYX broadcasting station for hosting this recording session.

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http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomycast/AstroCast-061120.mp3

From November 20, 2006.

The discovery of dark energy was one of the biggest surprises in astronomy. Instead of a nice, predictable expanding Universe, acted on only by gravity, astronomers turned up a mysterious repulsive force accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Fraser and Pamela explain the evidence for a dark energy, and a few possible theories for what could be providing this repulsive force.

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Dr. Pasachoff tells us about the Great Eclipse of 2017, which will cross the continental United States on August 21, 2017. Today is the minus-first anniversary of the Great American Eclipse of August 21st, 2017. One year from today the shadow of the Moon will sweep across the continental United States from upper left to lower right, from Oregon to South Carolina.

http://eclipsophile.com/

http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/

http://sites.williams.edu/iau-eclipses/

http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/people/jpasachoff/

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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:

- A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.

- Will spray paint save planet Earth?

https://www.spreaker.com/show/travelers-in-the-night

Dr. Grauer is noted for:

- Co-discoverer of comet P/2010 TO20 Linear-Grauer

- Discoverer of comet C/2009 U5 Grauer

- Has asteroid 18871 Grauer named for him.

The Music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.

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http://www.unawe.org/kids/unawe1616/

Over the last few weeks Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm. Visit the beach and you’ll see dozens of people battling to catch water-type Pokémon like Magikarp or Krabby.

Take a walk in the countryside and you’ll find yourself surrounded by grass-type Caterpies.

But what type of Pokémon would you find in space?

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https://youtu.be/6Ajc7SQ7RFo?t=4h4m32s - Part 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ajc7SQ7RFo

Geoff Notkin ( @GeoffNotkin ) & Sondy Springmann ( @Sondy ) are our fabulous guests! Geoff tells us about "Meteorite Hunters Unlimited" his new show with meteorite hunting buddy and cohost Steve Arnold! Geoff generously offers up several meteorites and books as donations to the Hangout-a-Thon.

http://www.meteoritehuntersunlimited.com/

http://www.geoffnotkin.com/

http://www.cox7.com/stem-journals/

About Geoff Notkin: A television host, professional meteorite hunter, science writer, photographer, and owner of Aerolite Meteorites, Geoff starred for three seasons on Science Channel's award-winning TV show Meteorite Men, and served as host of the TV series STEM Journals on Cox7 Arizona. He has also made documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, BBC, History Channel, A&E, and Travel Channel. He has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts. The minor planet 132904, discovered at Mount Palomar, was named "Notkin" and approved by the Minor Planet Center in recognition of Geoff's contributions to science and education.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-N6hNhh7Q

Streamed live on Jan 27, 2015

Join us for a Google Hangout Seminar with Dr. David Zaslavsky ( @ellipsix ) on Jan 27th to discuss high energy physics!

Abstract: For half a century, physicists have been probing the structure of protons using particle accelerators with increasingly higher energies. As the collision energy has grown by orders of magnitude, the protons involved behave like increasingly dense collections of quarks and gluons, or partons, which we describe mathematically using parton distribution functions (PDFs). A PDF roughly represents the probability for a particular type of parton to interact with another particle during the collision.

It's been clear for some time that, as collision energy increases, the PDFs grow in a way that is not sustainable. Extrapolating their behavior from the experimental results we have so far leads to nonsensical conclusions like probabilities greater than 1. Clearly, at some point a new physical phenomenon, which we call saturation, has to kick in to slow the PDFs' growth. The latest generation of colliders - the LHC at CERN and RHIC at Brookhaven - are just on the verge of exposing the first experimental evidence of saturation.

In my talk, after giving a quick primer on proton structure, I'll describe the theoretical motivation for saturation, show how we search for its experimental signature, and present the results of my research on one of the most accurate tests of saturation physics to date. The result I'll be talking about is a set of predictions for the scattering cross section in proton-nucleus collisions. Comparing these predictions to measurements allows us to test how closely different models for the parton distribution match reality.

If anyone wants further reading, these are the papers describing the underlying research:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4057 
http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6311
Dr Zaslavsky's Blog Post: What's in a proton? http://www.ellipsix.net/blog/2014/02/what-s-in-a-proton.html

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How do we make observations beyond visible light? What exactly is a telescope? And what’s up with NASA adding colors to images? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

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http://www.astronomycast.com/2006/11/where-do-baby-stars-come-from/

Most parents have had that uncomfortable conversation with their children at some point. Mommy, Daddy, where do stars come from? You hem and haw, mumble a few words about angular momentum and primordial hydrogen and then cleverly change the subject. Well, you don’t have to avoid the subject any longer. Pamela and Fraser describe formation of stars, large and small, in a tasteful manner, using only understandable and scientific language.

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At the Astronomical League Convention ALCon 2016 there were many informative talks. "The New Horizons Mission to Pluto & Charon" by Dr. Michael E. Summers, George Mason Univ. & The New Horizons Science Team tells us about all the trials & tribulations that the science team had in getting the mission all the way out to Pluto. Then he recounts all the wondrous things the mission found out there. The nitrogen ice plane, the ice volcanoes, water ice mountains and the tholins coloring parts of Pluto and Charon red. The New Horizons Mission isn't done yet, as it's heading deeper into the Kuiper Belt to rendezvous with another icy body out there. Stay tuned!

"Psychedelic Pluto" image: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-psychedelic-pluto_pca.png

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