June 20th, 2011
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Date: June 19, 2011 Title: Mentoring in Astronomy Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Link: http://www.cmu.edu/physics Description: The recent hiring of two women cosmologists into the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University has prompted a look into mentoring for women in astronomy. The ADVANCE program (NSF solicitation 10-593) is a funding opportunity with a [...]
June 18th, 2011
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Date: June 18, 2011 Title: Remembering the Spirit Rover with Scott Maxwell Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson Organization: Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com Link: Mars and Me Blog: http://marsandme.blogspot.com/ Description: On May 25, 2011, NASA and JPL announced that they had exhausted all the likely scenarios for making contact with the Spirit rover on Mars, and the likelihood that [...]
June 17th, 2011
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Date: June 17, 2011 Title: The Data from the LSST Podcaster: Rob Sparks Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Links: http://www.noao.edu http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth http://www.lsst.org Description: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8.4 meter telescope currently under development that will be built in Chile with first light expected in 2018. It’s large field of view [...]
June 16th, 2011
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Date: June 16, 2011 Title: Space Travel or Health & Safety? Podcaster: Maurizio Morabito FBIS Organization: Omnologos Ltd Description: Exploration means risk. Avoid all risk, and you will avoid all exploration. We might as well all be dead on this planet. Bio: Maurizio is an experienced electronics and computing technologist and scientist, and published journalist [...]
June 15th, 2011
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Date: June 15, 2011 Title: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy Link: www.cheapastro.com Description: A quick run through each of the three laws – how they were derived and how relevant they remain in 21st century astrophysics. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website giving you more big bang for [...]
June 14th, 2011
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Date: June 14, 2011 Title: Probing the Kuiper Belt and Beyond Podcaster: Meg Schwamb and Brooke Simmons Description: Meg and Brooke discuss what we have learned by studying the small planetesimals orbiting beyond Neptune in the Kuiper belt and beyond. In particular they discuss Sedna, a roughly Pluto-sized body on a highly eccentric orbit beyond [...]
June 13th, 2011
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Date: June 13, 2011 Title: The Biggest Things in the Universe Podcaster: Matthew Francis Organization: Randolph-Macon College Links: “Galileo’s Pendulum” science blog: http://GalileosPendulum.org/ This page at Galileo’s Pendulum provides images to compliment this podcast. Description: When compared to human scale, the sizes of objects like stars and galaxies can be mind-bogglingly huge. These large objects [...]
June 12th, 2011
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Date: June 12, 2011 Title: Encore: Mysterious Moon Rocks Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) Links: http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/ Description: Using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) on India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, teams of researchers recently found two new kinds of Moon rocks: one was “hidden” on the far side of the Moon, the [...]
June 11th, 2011
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Date: June 11, 2011 Title: “Why I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming!” Podcaster: Richard Drumm Organization: Charlottesville Astronomical Society in Charlottesville, Virginia. Links: Richard’s blog is at http://theastronomybum.blogspot.com/ Description: Richard Drumm, the Astronomy Bum, talks with planet finder (and Pluto killer) Dr. Mike Brown from Caltech about Brown’s book, “Why I Killed [...]
June 10th, 2011
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Date: June 10, 2011 Title: Encore: Learning about Seasons in a Planetarium Podcaster: Chuck Dibbs Organization: Virginia Beach City Public Schools Description: Having taught Astronomy in the planetarium for a decade now I’ve discovered that one topic continues to give students and adults of all ages trouble. That is, what is the cause of earth’s [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009, 2010, 2011 -- and now 2012. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around
the world.
365 Days of Astronomy is a proud part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
