August 11th, 2009

August 11th: Cassini Watches the Sun Rise Above Saturn’s Rings

Date: August 11, 2009 Title: Cassini Watches the Sun Rise Above Saturn’s Rings [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090811-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Emily Lakdawalla Organization: The Planetary Society http://planetary.org/blog Description: Today, August 11, 2009, marks Saturn’s equinox, the first day of spring in its northern hemisphere. An observer at Saturn sees crazy things happening when the Sun passes through the plane that [...]

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August 10th, 2009

August 10th: What Happened to Saturn’s Rings?

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Date: August 10, 2009 Title: What Happened to Saturn’s Rings? [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090810-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Adam Fuller from Columbia Astronomy Organization: Columbia University Astronomy http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu Description: 400 years ago Galileo turned his telescope towards Saturn and saw what he thought were three separate round bodies. For the next 50 years astronomers hotly debated the true nature of Saturn. [...]

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August 9th, 2009

August 9th: Perseids Meteor Shower

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Date: August 9, 2009 Title: Perseids Meteor Shower [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090809-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Christopher Crockett Organization: Lowell Observatory http://www.lowell.edu/users/crockett/ Description: On August 12, the annual Perseids meteor shower will light up the night sky with up to 60 meteors per hour. But before you head out to experience this display, you might want to listen to this podcast! [...]

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August 8th, 2009

August 8th: A History of Modern Astronomy in Thailand Part 1

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Date: August 8, 2009 Title: A History of Modern Astronomy in Thailand Part 1 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090808-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Visanu Euarchukiati Organization: Khaikhan Nithan Dao http://www.khaikhan.in.th Description: Part 1 tells about Thailand’s astronomy before the 20th Century. Not long after the advent of the telescope, late 17th Century Siam (former name of Thailand) built the first modern astronomical [...]

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August 7th, 2009

August 7th: Eclipsing Binaries

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Date: August 7, 2009 Title: Eclipsing Binaries [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090807-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: AAVSO, with Mike Simonsen, Virginia Renehan and Rebecca Turner. Organization: American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) http://www.aavso.org Description: Today we will discuss eclipsing binaries, variable stars that are actually two stars in orbit around each other, where one star periodically eclipses the light from its [...]

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August 6th, 2009

August 6th: UNAWE: Experiences with children

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Date: August 6, 2009 Title: UNAWE: Experiences with children [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090806-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Deirdre Kelleghan, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Kevin Govender, Amine Abdellatif, and Carolina Ödman Organization: Universe Awareness Description: Universe Awareness and their experiences with children. Bio: Deirdre Kelleghan is an amateur astronomer and an artist. She is the former President of the Irish Astronomical Society (2005 [...]

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August 5th, 2009

August 5th: What Do We See When We Look Up?

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Date: August 5, 2009 Title: What Do We See When We Look Up? [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090805-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Wayne Harris-Wyrick Organization: Oklahoma City Astronomy Club and Kirkpatrick Planetarium. Check out their website. Description: What do we detect when we look into space? Very little, actually. Almost all of what we know about the universe comes from analysis of [...]

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August 4th, 2009

August 4th: Aliens in Roswell

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Date: August 4, 2009 Title: Aliens in Roswell [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090804-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Brian Dunning Organization: Brian Dunning Skeptoid Podcast http://skeptoid.com Description: Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com offers a critical analysis of the 1947, Roswell, New Mexico alien spacecraft crash. Bio: Brian Dunning is the host and producer of the podcast Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena (skeptoid.com), applying [...]

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August 3rd, 2009

August 3rd: Black Hole Street Smarts

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Date: August 3, 2009 Title: Black Hole Street Smarts [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090803-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Lia Corrales and David Tam Organization: Columbia University Astronomy http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu Description: We will explore the history and legacy of the most publicly known yet misunderstood astronomical object. We’ll be interviewing people on the streets of New York City to highlight common questions and misconceptions [...]

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August 2nd, 2009

August 2nd: Stardust@home: the Search for Interstellar Dust

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Date: August 2, 2009 Title: Stardust@home: the Search for Interstellar Dust [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090802-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Dr. Andrew Westphal and Anna Butterworth Organization: Center for Science Education at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Description: The Stardust spacecraft returned the first samples of extra-solar interstellar dust (“star dust”) ever collected as well as dust samples from comet Wild [...]

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