September 11th, 2009

September 11th: Pluto, Stand Thou Still!

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Date: September 11, 2009 Title: Pluto, Stand Thou Still! [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090911-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Larry Sessions Organization: None Description: Pluto, the only object ever to be demoted from full planet status, is stationary today, even though it currently is travelling at about 5 kilometers per second! It never stops, so how can it be “stationary?” Motion — or [...]

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September 10th, 2009

September 10th: Singing the Ultraviolet Blues

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Date: September 10, 2009 Title: Singing the Ultraviolet Blues [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090910-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen Organization: Loch Ness Productions http://www.lochnessproductions.com/index2.html MUSIC CREDITS: “Deep Blue” from Geodesium Fourth Universe “The Ocean of Space” from Geodesium West of the Galaxy. http://www.geodesium.com. Description: ltraviolet light is the bane of sunbathers, but for astronomers, it opens up new windows on [...]

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September 9th, 2009

September 9th: Planet Searching at the Gemini Observatory

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Date: September 9, 2009 Title: Planet Searching at the Gemini Observatory [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090909-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Main narration by Joy Pollard, with voice overs by Julian Cristou, Christian Marois, and Michael Liu Organization: Gemini Observatory www.gemini.edu Description: The Gemini Observatory consists of twin 8-meter optical/infrared telescopes built and operated by a consortium consisting of the United States, United [...]

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September 8th, 2009

September 8th: Who Wants To Be An Astronomaire

Date: September 8, 2009 Title: Who Wants To Be An Astronomaire [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090908-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Wayne Harris-Wyrick Organization: Kirkpatrick Planetarium of Science Museum Oklahoma. Visit the Museum’s site at www.sciencemuseumok.org. Description: With apologies to Meredith Vieira (and Regis Philbin), here is my version of “Who Wants To Be An Astronomaire”, a game-show-like quiz on some basic astronomy-related [...]

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September 7th, 2009

September 7th: Cataclysmic Variables

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Date: September 7, 2009 Title: Cataclysmic Variables [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090907-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcasters: Mike Simonsen, Virginia Renehan, and Rebecca Turner of AAVSO Organization: American Association of Variable Star Observers www.aavso.org Description: Today we are going to talk about cataclysmic variable stars, CVs for short. Because hundreds of CVs get bright enough to study with even modest telescopes, and due [...]

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September 6th, 2009

September 6th: Eyes Above: The Emotions of a Scientific Discovery

Date: September 6, 2009 Title: Eyes Above: The Emotions of a Scientific Discovery [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090906-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Mario Damasso Organization: Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) Description: We are a group of astronomers working together, searching the sky above our observatory for new worlds, small solar system bodies, and super-massive black holes [...]

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September 5th, 2009

September 5th: A-Hunting We Will Go!

Date: September 5, 2009 Title: A-Hunting We Will Go! [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090905-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: John Troeltzsch & Roz Brown Organization: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. www.ballaerospace.com Description: The largest telescope ever built for a NASA mission soared beyond Earth’s orbit on March 7, 2009, looking not for ET, but rather ET’s home. The Kepler mission is hunting for [...]

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September 4th, 2009

September 4th: Saturn’s Rings Do a Disappearing Trick

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Date: September 4, 2009 Title: Saturn’s Rings Do a Disappearing Trick [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090904-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Emily Lakdawalla Organization: The Planetary Society www.planetary.org/blog Description: Today Earth crosses the plane of Saturn’s rings, a special event that happens only once every fifteen years. I’ll explain how ring plane crossings produce discoveries of moons, and why this year’s ring plane [...]

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September 3rd, 2009

September 3rd: Gravitational Lensing

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Date: September 3, 2009 Title: Gravitational Lensing [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090903-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: SkyLK Organization: SkyLK http://skylk.com Description: A gravitational lens is created when the light from a distant source is bent due to the existence of a massive object between the observer and source. The object could be a galaxy, black hole or a cluster of galaxies, and [...]

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September 2nd, 2009

September 2nd: STEREO/IMPACT: Our Un-Quiet Sun

Date: September 2, 2009 Title: STEREO/IMPACT: Our Un-Quiet Sun [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090902-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Dr. Janet Luhmann interviewed by Ms. Priya Desai Organization: Center for Science Education at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact Description: STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a two-spacecraft NASA mission orbiting the Sun near Earth’s orbit to study the dynamic eruptions of mass [...]

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