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January 31st, 2011

January 31st: Life on Titan

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Date: January 31, 2011 Title: Life on Titan [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110131-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Chris Impey Organization: University of Arizona Links: http://www.chrisimpey.com http://www.thelivingcosmos.com http://www.thebookofendings.com http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Impey/e/B001IZXGTS Description: Titan may be the most fascinating destination in the Solar System. After describing Saturn’s large moon, the evidence for liquid lakes, volcanism, and life in discussed. Life on Titan, if it exists, would [...]

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January 30th, 2011

January 30th: Favorite Episodes from 2010

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Date: January 30, 2011 Title: Favorite Episodes from 2010 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110130-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: TecnoCasters Organization: http://www.tecnocasters.com/ Description: Angel Monjaras from the TecnoCasters looks back at some of his favorite 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts from 2010. Bio: TecnoCasters is the best technology podcast in Spanish. Hosted by Juan D. Guevara, Pedro Riveroll, Lorena Galan and Raul Mitre, [...]

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January 29th, 2011

January 29th: Light from Distant Galaxies

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Date: January 29, 2011 Title: Light from Distant Galaxies [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110129-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen Organization: Loch Ness Productions (www.lochnessproductions.com) Music from Stella Novus, a new album from Geodesium. (http://www.geodesium.com) Description: Carolyn Collins Petersen, TheSpacewriter, talks about distant galaxies and how they’re telling us about the early universe. Bio: Carolyn Collins Petersen is a science writer [...]

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January 28th, 2011

January 28th: StardustNeXT’s Valentine’s Day Date

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Date: January 28, 2011 Title: StardustNeXT’s Valentine’s Day Date [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110128-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Jane Platt Organization: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory – www.jpl.nasa.gov Description: NASA’s StardustNExT spacecraft has a Valentine’s date with a comet (on Feb. 14 in U.S. time zones). The craft already flew by comet Wild 2 in 2005, and now it’s approaching a flyby of [...]

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January 27th, 2011

January 27th: Astroimaging Under Light-Polluted Skies

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Date: January 27, 2011 Title: Astroimaging Under Light-Polluted Skies [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110127-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Robert J. Vanderbei Link: www.sizinguptheuniverse.com Description: Robet Vanderbei, Author of “Sizing Up the Universe” and Princeton University professor talks about Astro Imaging Under Light Polluted Skies. Bio: Robert Vanderbei is professor and chair of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton [...]

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January 26th, 2011

January 26th: 7th Anniversary of Opportunity’s Arrival on Mars

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Date: January 26, 2011 Title: 7th Anniversary of Opportunity’s Arrival on Mars Podcaster: Ken Brandt Links: Mars Rover website: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov Planetary Society Website: www.planetarysociety.org Description: Riddle me this: What has lasted 28 times longer than its warranty, driven over 15 miles, and recorded over 147,000 images of the plains of Mars? Of Course, Opportunity has. [...]

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January 25th, 2011

January 25th: Bringing NASA into your Classroom

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Date: January 25, 2011 Title: Bringing NASA into your Classroom [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110125-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Tony Rice Link: Tony’s blog: http://utprosim.com/ Description: Today I’ll be talking about resources available to everyone whether they be formal educators like teachers in a classroom or informal ones like scout leaders, astronomy clubs doing public outreach, museum personnel putting together programs, home-school [...]

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January 24th, 2011

January 24th: It’s All Downhill From Here

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Date: January 24, 2011 Title: It’s All Downhill From Here [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110124-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy – www.cheapastro.com Description: Entropy – a fancy word for saying that our universe is going to fizzle out eventually. Indeed, we may only have few googol more years left. Noooooo. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website that [...]

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January 23rd, 2011

January 23rd: Moon Colonies

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Date: January 23, 2011 Title: Moon Colonies [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110123-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Maurizio Morabito Organization: Omnologos Ltd. – http://omnologos.wordpress.com/ http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/ Description: The why, where and when of Lunar colonies. Bio: Maurizio is an experienced electronics and computing technologist and scientist, and published journalist and technical and scientific author in English and Italian with a variety of interests, including [...]

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January 22nd, 2011

January 22nd: Telescope Eyepieces

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Date: January 22, 2011 Title: Telescope Eyepieces [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20110122-365DoA.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: Edgardo discusses the theories and facts behind telescope eyepieces. Bio: Edgardo Molina. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Anahuac University in Mexico City. Post graduate studies [...]

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