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April 30th, 2011

April 30th: If You Are an Alien, Call Back Later

Date: April 30, 2011 Title: If You Are an Alien, Call Back Later Podcaster: Juan Guevara Torres Organization: Tecnocasters Links: http://www.tecnocasters.com/ Description: The Tecnocasters discuss how budget cuts have forced the Allen Telescope Array to be put in ‘hibernation,’ which will hurt the SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Bio: TecnoCasters is the best technology [...]

April 29th, 2011

April 29th: The NASA Radio Jove Project

Date: April 29, 2011 Title: The NASA Radio Jove Project Podcaster: Steve Arnold Link: The Nasa Radio Jove Project – http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov Description: This is my own experience of how I became interested in radio astronomy by building and using the Radio Jove Receiver to observe the Sun and the planet Jupiter. I would like to [...]

April 28th, 2011

April 28th: A Thermal Tour of the Universe

Date: April 28, 2011 Title: A Thermal Tour of the Universe Podcaster: L Cate Kendall Link: http://ww.legofusker.net/astronomy.htm Description: We all have a sense for what hot and cold mean in our lives, and in this podcast we will take a brief look at some of the places where temperatures are very cold or very hot, [...]

April 27th, 2011

April 27th: The Yuma Star Party

Date: April 27, 2011 Title: The Yuma Star Party Podcaster: Rob Sparks Organizations: NOAO – http://www.noao.edu; http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth Science Foundation Arizona: http://www.sfaz.org/ Description: Star parties are a common form of astronomy outreach. One of our goals as educators is to have a long term impact on student learning. In this podcast, we look at the Yuma [...]

April 26th, 2011

April 26th: Tracing Planetary Atmospheric Evolution Using Isotopes from Life, part 1

Date: April 26, 2011 Title: Tracing Planetary Atmospheric Evolution Using Isotopes from Life Podcaster: Adam Fuller Links: Astrobiology Forum – http://astrobiology.jhu.edu Description: To detect life in space, we must first understand how life changes its environment and how it changes with its environment. And the best place to study the interaction of life with its [...]

April 25th, 2011

April 25th: Goodbye, Pioneer Anomaly

Date: April 25, 2011 Title: Goodbye, Pioneer Anomaly Podcaster: Kate Becker Links: SpaceCraft science writing: www.spacecrafty.com Inside NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/author/kathryn-becker/ The Daily Camera: www.dailycamera.com Social media: http://www.facebook.com/katembecker, www.twitter.com/kmbecker Description: One of the solar system’s unsolved mysteries is finally put to rest. So why are we disappointed? Bio: Kate Becker is a story researcher for NOVA, the [...]

April 24th, 2011

April 24th: Dusty Mysteries

Date: April 24, 2011 Title: Dusty Mysteries Podcaster: Peter Clark and Hannah Hutchins Organization: The Witty Astronomers Star Sailor Podcast – http://thewittyastronomers.wordpress.com/ Description: In this episode we interview Professor Bill Keel on the subject of overlapping galaxies. We cover what they are, what they can help us to find out and one of Bill’s favourites. [...]

April 23rd, 2011

April 23rd: Encore: John Glenn’s Fireflies and the Astronauts’ Constellation

Date: April 23, 2011 Title: Encore: John Glenn’s Fireflies and the Astronauts’ Constellation Podcaster: Robert Pearlman Links: collectSPACE.com This podcast originally aired on Feb. February 20, 2009: http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/02/20/february-20-john-glenns-fireflies-and-the-astronauts-constellation/ Description: February was the 49th anniversary of the first American in orbit. Astronaut John Glenn circled the Earth three times and in the process, discovered a new [...]

April 22nd, 2011

April 22nd: Seeing With the Lens of Gravity

Date: April 22, 2011 Title: Seeing With the Lens of Gravity Podcaster: Matthew Francis Organization: Randolph-Macon College Link: “Galileo’s Pendulum” science blog – http://GalileosPendulum.org/ Description: Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts how the path of light rays are affected by gravity. The size of this effect on the scale of stars and planets is pretty [...]

April 21st, 2011

April 21st: The Trans-en-Provence UFO Case

Date: April 21, 2011 Title: The Trans-en-Provence UFO Case Podcaster: Jean-Michel Abrassart Links: “Scepticisme scientifique: Le balado de la Science et de la Raison,” a Skeptical podcast (in French). Description: In this episode, Belgian skeptic Jean-Michel Abrassart talks about a very famous French ufological case: Trans-en-Provence. Bio: Jean Michel Abrassart is one of the co-hosts [...]

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