March 31st, 2009

March 31st: The Informative Dwarf Planet Haumea

Date: March 31, 2009
Title: The Informative Dwarf Planet Haumea
Podcaster: Darin Ragozzine
Links: Info on Haumea: www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/2003EL61
Darin's website: www.gps.caltech.edu/~darin
Description: The Dwarf Planet Haumea orbits the Sun beyond Neptune and Pluto and is one of the largest known Kuiper Belt Objects. In many ways, Haumea is one of the most interesting objects in the solar system: Haumea’s ultra-fast spin stretches it out into [...]

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March 30th, 2009

March 30th: Robert Zubrin on Why We Must Go to Mars

Date: March 30, 2009
Title: Robert Zubrin on Why We Must Go to Mars
Podcasters: John C. Snider and Carlos Aranaga
Organization: SciFiDimensions.com
Description: Robert Zubrin, the world's most enthusiastic booster for human conquest of the Red Planet, makes the case for why Earthlings need to establish a foothold on our planetary neighbor sooner rather than later. Zubrin's latest book is "How [...]

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March 29th, 2009

March 29th: A Magnitude of Confusion

Date: March 29, 2009
Title: A Magnitude of Confusion
Podcaster: Chris Marr
Organization: The Astronomical Society of Western Australia http://aswa.info
Description: Everything about star magnitudes, from the name to the numbers, seems to confuse the newcomer. However, that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to explain them. In this podcast, magnitudes are explained in layman's language, from the origin of the term [...]

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March 28th, 2009

March 28th: What if the Moon did not exist?

Date: March 28, 2009
Title: What if the Moon did not exist?
Podcaster: Patrick McQuillan
Organization: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) www.iris.edu
Description: We often take the Moon for granted. We assume it will always be there. Circling the Earth month after month with regular precision. But what would our world be like if we didn’t have a moon? The length of [...]

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March 27th, 2009

March 27th: Observing the Sky: Pre-Telescope

Date: March 27, 2009
Title: Observing the Sky: Pre-Telescope
Podcaster: Nancy Ross Dribin and Mark Webb of the Adler Planetarium
Organization: The Adler Planetarium
Description: Prior to the age of the telescope man still looked to the sky. This podcast will explore the stories of the stars and how the night sky was observed in past cultures.
Bio: The Adler Planetarium — America's First [...]

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March 26th, 2009

The 52 Weeks of Astronomy

Want your 365 days divided neatly into 7-day weeks? Or perhaps you are one of those people for whom the daily dose of blistering guitar hath run its course? (Shame on you, BTW.) Or maybe you just prefer listening an hour at a time instead of 10 minutes at a time?

If so you can subscribe to The 365 Days of Astronomy Weekly Edition. We have it in 2 flavors, the normal RSS feed and the iTunes feed. Someday we may even have a Zune feed, whatever that is.

So get it daily or get it weekly but keep on listening to The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast, the Daily Podcast of The International Year of Astronomy 2009!

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March 26th, 2009

March 26th: Adaptive Optics

Date: March 26, 2009
Title: Adaptive Optics
Podcaster: Scott Kardel
Organization: Palomar Observatory / Caltech palomar-observatory.org
Description: Recently astronomers have been clearing the air and achieving remarkable results with a technique known as adaptive optics. In this pod cast I will explain the problem that adaptive optics needs to correct, how it is done on telescope's like Palomar's Hale Telescope and what is [...]

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March 25th, 2009

March 25th: Selenography: Naming and Mapping the Moon

Date: March 25, 2009
Title: Selenography: Naming and Mapping the Moon
Podcaster: Mark Tillotson, amateur astronomer, lunar enthusiast, author of Today in Astronomy blog, member of the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society and IYA_US team member.
Links: Today in Astronomy: http://todayinastronomy.blogspot.com/
Lunar Mark: http://lunarmark.blogspot.com/
The Astronomy Compendium: http://astronomycompendium.wikispaces.com/
LVAAS: http://www.lvaas.net/
Description: It all started with the second person who created a lunar map. Naming features on the [...]

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March 24th, 2009

March 24th: Ptolemaic Cosmology – the Universe before Copernicus

Date: March 24, 2009
Title: Ptolemaic Cosmology - the Universe before Copernicus
Podcaster: Nik Whitehead
Organization: None
Description: Nowadays we are all used to the idea that the Earth is nothing particularly special, just another planet orbiting a fairly average star in a pretty normal galaxy. This worldview is thanks to the work of Nicholas Copernicus, who published his heliocentric model of the universe in 1514. [...]

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March 23rd, 2009

March 23rd: Venus moves from the Evening Sky to the Morning Sky

Date: March 23, 2009
Title: Venus moves from the Evening Sky to the Morning Sky
Podcaster: David M. F. Chapman
Organization: Astronomy Nova Scotia: 
http://www.astronomynovascotia.ca/
David Chapman's website: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dave.chapman/astro_page2.html
Description: Venus has appeared high in the western sky throughout the winter. As it nears Inferior Conjunction on March 27, it plunges into the sunset almost 8 degrees North of the Sun, and actually pops up as a Morning [...]

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