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December 12th, 2010

December 12th: NASA’s Flying Observatory Begins Science Flights

Date: December 12, 2010 Title: NASA’s Flying Observatory Begins Science Flights [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101212-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Martin Ratcliffe Links: For more information about SOFIA, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/sofia and http://www.dlr.de/en/sofia. For information about SOFIA’s science mission, visit: SOFIA and http://www.dsi.uni-stuttgart.de Description: On the night of November 30 to December 1, the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraRed Astronomy, called SOFIA for short, [...]

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December 11th, 2010

December 11th: The Mother of Love Imitates Cynthia’s Shapes

Date: December 11, 2010 Title: The Mother of Love Imitates Cynthia’s Shapes [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101211-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Mark Thompson Description: Another glimpse into the past– 400 years ago Galileo began sending alphabet puzzles in the form of confusing anagrams to announce his telescope discoveries. This one, sent 400 years ago to the day, to Johannes Kepler announces for [...]

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December 10th, 2010

December 10th: The Perils of Science News!

Date: December 10, 2010 Title: The Perils of Science News! [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101210-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Dr. Alex “Sandy” Antunes Organization: Project Calliope LLC – http://projectcalliope.com Description: Beware the science that you read! Also, why we scientists don’t write more of it. Bio: Sandy looks at the science and the people in today’s 9-5 pro astronomy world, delivering monthly [...]

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December 9th, 2010

December 9th: Titan and the Saturnian System

Date: December 9, 2010 Title: Titan and the Saturnian System [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101209-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: The Ordinary Guy from the Brains Matter podcast Organization: Brains Matter – http://www.brainsmatter.com Description: In today’s episode of 365 Days of Astronomy, Dr Andrew Prentice from Monash University explains some of his theories which he proposed initially in the 70s, and how they [...]

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December 8th, 2010

December 8th: Basic Spectroscopy for Amateurs

Date: December 8, 2010 Title: Basic Spectroscopy for Amateurs [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101208-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Mark DeVito Description: A brief discussion of basic spectroscopy. Bio: Mark is an amateur astronomer in Fredericksburg, Virginia and just getting into amateur spectroscopy. Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by Scott Udell, who’d like to give a shout-out [...]

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December 7th, 2010

December 7th: Encore Edition: Ancient Astronomy; The Mayans

Date: December 7, 2010 Title: Ancient Astronomy; The Mayans [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101207-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Augusto Valdés Organization: Instituto de Astronomía UNAM www.astroscu.unam.mx. Description: A brief introduction on how the Mayans took advantage of their geographical location in order to study Venus, how they knew about other objects and the significance of their calendar. (and, briefly, how the world [...]

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December 6th, 2010

December 6th: Participating in Professional Science

Date: December 6, 2010 Title: Participating in Professional Science [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101206-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Thomas Hofstätter Link: If you have any questions, comments or suggestions to the podcast, feel free to write me an email to hidden-space (at) gmx (dot) at or visit me at my website at www.hidden-space.at.tf! Description: This podcast discusses the topic of citizen participation [...]

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December 5th, 2010

December 5th: The Birth, Life, and Death of Alien Planets

Date: December 5, 2010 Title: The Birth, Life, and Death of Alien Planets [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101205-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Daniel Pendick Link: Daniel’s Blog: Geeked on Goddard! http://geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Description: Astronomers have now identified 500 candidate exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars. As the discoveries mount, observers and theorists work hard to update their ideas on how planets form, how [...]

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December 4th, 2010

December 4th: The High End World of Reflector Telescope Optics

Date: December 4, 2010 Title: The High End World of Reflector Telescope Optics [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101204-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Edgardo Molina Organization: Pleiades. Research and Astronomical Studies A.C. www.pleiades.org.mx (web site soon to be presented also in English) Description: Today we are talking about the reflector telescopes. Telescopes that are based on Isaac Newton’s idea of using a parabolic [...]

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December 3rd, 2010

December 3rd: Arkle Presents: This Day In Astronomy History, Shatner Style

Date: December 3, 2010 Title: Arkle Presents: This Day In Astronomy History, Shatner Style [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101203-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Brian “Arkle” Webber Link: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com Description: Major events in the field of astronomy that occured this day in history, done in the style of the “Bad Impersonation of William Shatner Performing a Leonard Cohen Song” skit from when he [...]

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