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December 31st, 2009

December 31st: The IYA New Media Working Group Bids 2009 Adieu!

Date: December 31, 2009
Title: The IYA New Media Working Group Bids 2009 Adieu!
Podcaster: The IYA New Media Working Group
Description: The year closes on this humble but successful effort for the International Year of Astronomy. But it was a great year! So great, in fact, that we're going to do it again in 2010!
Bio: Michael Koppelman is part [...]

December 30th, 2009

December 30th: Skylights 2010

Date: December 30, 2009
Title: Skylights 2010
Podcaster: Patrick McQuillan
Organization: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
Description: A quick run down of the astronomy and space program highlights for 2010. Get out your calendar and mark the important dates to remember for next year. Finally a podcast that you can listen to for an entire year! Song at the end of [...]

December 29th, 2009

December 29th: Decoding Iapetus: An Exercise in “Sybil” Engineering

Date: December 29, 2009
Title: Decoding Iapetus: An Exercise in "Sybil" Engineering
Podcaster: Kevin Grazier
Links: Cassini mission, CICLOPS Cassini image site.
Description: If planetary scientists could take the moons of Saturn and, knowing what we know, re-assign the names already given them, the moon Iapetus would certainly become Janus. Janus was a two-faced god from Roman mythology, [...]

December 28th, 2009

December 28th: Life in Technicolor

Date: December 28, 2009
Title: Life in Technicolor
Podcaster: Maria Pereira
Organization: Columbia University Astronomy http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu
Description: What will plants on other worlds look like? Will they be green and leafy as on Earth? Or could there be planets with purple trees? Black grassy plains? Orange marshes? These questions might seem purely speculative, something out of a technicolor daydream, but, in reality, their [...]

December 27th, 2009

December 27th: The Protestant Galileo

Date: December 27, 2009
Title: The Protestant Galileo
Podcaster: Ted Haulley
Contact: E-Mail thaulley@yahoo.com
Description: Johannes Kepler was a contemporary of Galileo who also supported heliocentrism. His three laws of planetary motion are so fundamental that they still the basis for studies in planetary motion. He made his discoveries among personal and religious turmoil surrounding him. Today's episode will look [...]

December 26th, 2009

December 26th: Confessions of a Christmas Trash Scope

Date: December 26, 2009
Title: Confessions of a Christmas Trash Scope
Podcaster: Richard S. Wright
Description: The dreaded “Christmas Trash Scope”, the bane of amateur astronomers worldwide! Shoddy optics! Wobbly mounts! Dangerous solar filters! Misleading advertising! Heaven help us! But wait… could someone REALLY get a decent start to a lifelong and rewarding hobby with such an abomination? Indeed, it might [...]

December 25th, 2009

December 25th: Star of Wonder

Date: December 25, 2009
Title: Star of Wonder
Podcaster: Adler Planetarium
Organization: Adler Planetarium, Adler Night and Day podcasts
Description: Star of Wonder examines the theories behind the celestial event that prompted the Magi (Three Kings) to travel to Bethlehem. Was this light an exploding star, a brilliant comet, or an unusual grouping of planets?
Bio: The Adler Planetarium — America's First Planetarium — [...]

December 24th, 2009

Open Dates in January — Podcasters Needed!

We still have a few open dates in January and we need volunteers to sign up for doing podcasts! Here are the days:
Jan. 18 Taken!
Jan. 19 Taken!
Jan. 21 Taken!
Jan. 22 Taken!
Jan. 23 Taken!
Jan. 24 Taken!
Jan. 28 Taken!
Jan. 29
Jan. 31 Taken!
Also, Feb. 1 is open, too.
Email us to sign up, and visit the Join In page for [...]

December 24th, 2009

December 24th: Dancing in the Dark: Deities, Celebrations, and the Bottom of the Year

Date: December 24, 2009
Title: Dancing in the Dark: Deities, Celebrations, and the Bottom of the Year
Podcaster: Diane Duane
Link: http://www.dianeduane.com
Description: There’s something about the end of the year that makes people a little crazy… maybe because the Winter Solstice and the dark days surrounding it have presented human beings with numerous problems over the millennia that people have been building [...]

December 23rd, 2009

December 23rd: See the Universe with Chromoscope

Date: December 23, 2009
Title: See the Universe with Chromoscope
Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson
Organization: Universe Today
Description: Nancy Atkinson of Universe Today talks with Stuart Lowe, Robert Simpson and Chris North about the online tool they developed,Chromoscope, which allows you to view the Universe in a range of wavelengths from X-rays to the longest radio waves.
Bio: Nancy Atkinson is the Senior Editor for [...]

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