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July 21st, 2011

July 21st: Apollo 11: Part 2 – The Landing

Date: July 21, 2011 Title: Apollo 11: Part 2 – The Landing Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy Link: www.cheapastro.com Description: This is the second of an epic podcast trilogy, celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the first Moon landing. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website in peace, for all mankind – as long as [...]

July 20th, 2011

July 20th: Encore: The Case of the Lobate Scarps

Date: July 20, 2011 Title: Encore: The Case of the Lobate Scarps Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen Organization: Loch Ness Productions (http://www.lochnessproductions.com/index2.html) Links: Music by Geodesium (http://www.geodesium.com) Description: Meet shadowy planetary science detective Caloris Basin as she outlines the case of Mercury’s lobate scarps. This tale of planetary science intrigue began with the Mariner mission and [...]

July 19th, 2011

July 19th: The Mars Hoax

Date: July 19, 2011 Title: The Mars Hoax Podcaster: TelescopeMan Links: www.telescopeman.org www.telescopeman.us Description: TelescopeMan describes the “Mars will be as big as the full moon” hoax, that comes around as an email or a PowerPoint slideshow every year during July and August. This is known as the Mars Hoax email! Don’t be fooled by [...]

July 18th, 2011

July 18th: The Discovery of Neptune’s Thirteen Moons, Part 2

Date: July 18, 2011 Title: The Discovery of Neptune’s Thirteen Moons, Part 2 Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Links: http://www.cmu.edu/physics Robert Park’s “Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science” Zooniverse Citizen Science Alliance Special Neptune edition of Argentus Description: Neptune has now completed one orbit around the Sun since its discovery 165 years ago. [...]

July 17th, 2011

July 17th: The Galactic Star Thief

Date: July 17, 2011 Title: The Galactic Star Thief Podcaster: Rob Sparks and Knut Olson Organization: NOAO, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Links: NOAO, NOAO’s Twitter feed Description: People who live in the southern hemisphere can see the Large Magellanic Cloud(LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), two nearby companion galaxies to the Milky Way. [...]

July 16th, 2011

July 16th: Apollo11: Part 1 – Getting There

Date: July 16, 2011 Title: Apollo11: Part 1 – Getting There Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy Link: www.cheapastro.com Description: Celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the first Moon landing – Neil, Buzz and Mike get strapped in for a re-run of their historic mission. Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where expenditure is not [...]

July 15th, 2011

July 15th: Discovery of Neptune’s Thirteen Moons, Part 1

Date: July 15, 2011 Title: Discovery of Neptune’s Thirteen Moons Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Description: Happy birthday to Neptune! This week marks the completion of one orbit around the Sun since Neptune was discovered 165 years ago. I claim that the pattern of discovery of Neptune’s moons illustrates how the process of [...]

July 14th, 2011

July 14th: Iridium Flares

Date: July 14, 2011 Title: Iridium Flares Podcaster: Kyle Kneisl Description: Many people do not realize that the brightest objects regularly in the sky besides the sun and moon are not the planets, but rather, but the reflections of the sun off of satellites orbiting the Earth. Some of these can be spectacularly bright. In [...]

July 13th, 2011

July 13th: Apollo 11: Flight to the Moon

Date: July 13, 2011 Title: Apollo 11: Flight to the Moon Podcaster: Thomas Hofstätter and Leon Dombroski Organization: :: The Hidden Space Project :: Link: http://hidden-space.at.tf Description: This is the third audio of five about the mission of Apollo 11. In this audio, the excitement generated in the media and in the public by the [...]

July 12th, 2011

July 12th: A Bigger Boom

Date: July 12, 2011 Title: A Bigger Boom Podcaster: Rob Knop Organization: Quest University Canada Links: My home page : http://www.questu.ca/academics/faculty/rob_knop.php Description: A new class of supernova that has been identified over the last few years, a class of supernova that may eventually be able to tell us about the first stars in the early [...]

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