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October 21st, 2011

October 21st: Stargazing 101: Help Topics for Beginners

Date: October 21, 2011 Title: Stargazing 101: Help Topics for Beginners Podcaster: Julio Vannini Link: Personal Blog: http://ungaman.wordpress.com Southern Gems Team page: http://www.citizensky.org/teams/southern-gems/ ANASA´s web: http://www.anasa.org.ni Description: Today I’d like to share with you some basic guidelines and advices for those of you willing to learn how to start making your own observations of the [...]

October 20th, 2011

October 20th: Plan for a Sustainable Lunar Base

Date: October 20, 2011 Title: Plan for a Sustainable Lunar Base Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson with Dr. Paul Spudis Organization: NASA Lunar Science Institute – http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/ Links: Paul Spudis’ website – http://blogs.airspacemag.com/moon/ Spudis Lunar Resources – http://www.spudislunarresources.com/ Music: “Amelia” by Ben Bedford from his “Land of the Shadows” CD. http://benbedford.com/ Description: Many have dreamed of a [...]

October 20th, 2011

October 20th: Plan for a Sustainable Lunar Base

Date: October 20, 2011 Title: Plan for a Sustainable Lunar Base Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson with Dr. Paul Spudis Links: NASA Lunar Science Institute, Paul Spudis’ website, Spudis Lunar Resources Music: “Amelia” by Ben Bedford from his “Land of the Shadows” CD. http://benbedford.com/ Description: Many have dreamed of a human settlement on the Moon but will [...]

October 19th, 2011

October 19th: An interview with George Diller, the Voice of NASA

Date: October 19, 2011 Title: An interview with George Diller, the Voice of NASA Podcaster: Tony Rice Link: Tony’s blog: http://utprosim.com Description: George Diller is NASA’s spokesman at the Kennedy Space Center. He has worked in the Public Affairs Office for over 30 years following a career in journalism covering the space program in the [...]

October 18th, 2011

October 18th: The Vital Importance of the Moon for Life on Earth

Date: October 18, 2011 Title: The Vital Importance of the Moon for Life on Earth Podcaster: Damian Lima Organization: Ciencia Limada Link: http://www.ciencialimada.com.ar/ Description: In this podcast we are going to analyze the different reasons why the moon could be of vital importance for life as we know it on Earth, analyzing the formation of [...]

October 17th, 2011

October 17th: The Acclerating Universe and the Nobel Prize

Date: October 17, 2011 Title: The Acclerating Universe and the Nobel Prize Podcaster: Rob Sparks and Tom Matheson Organization: the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Links: http://www.noao.edu http://twitter.com/#!/NOAONorth www.facebook.com/USNOAO Description: A discussion of the concept of the accelerating expanding Universe. The discoverers of this recently won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics. Bios: Rob Sparks [...]

October 16th, 2011

October 16th: An Account of Truman Kohman’s Life and Love of Astronomy, 1916-2010

Date: October 16, 2011 Title: An Account of Truman Kohman’s Life and Love of Astronomy, 1916-2010 Podcaster: Diane Turnshek Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Link: http://www.cmu.edu/physics Description:Truman Kohman, an astronomer from Pittsburgh (CMU) who died in 2010. Bio:Diane Turnshek teaches astronomy at CMU, Pitt and St. Vincent, and coordinates the physics outreach at CMU. St. Vincent’s [...]

October 15th, 2011

October 15th: Encore: Voyager: Sailing to the Edge of our Solar System

Date: October 15, 2011 Title: Encore: Voyager: Sailing to the Edge of our Solar System Podcaster: Jane Platt, with Dr. Ed Stone Organization: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Links: www.jpl.nasa.gov This podcast originally aired on March 9, 2009. http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/03/09/march-9th/ Description: NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, are headed toward our solar system’s “exit [...]

October 14th, 2011

October 14th: Hollows on Mercury

Date: October 14, 2011 Title: Hollows on Mercury Podcaster: Bob Hirshon Organization: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Link: www.aaas.org Description: Podcaster Bob Hirshon speaks with David Blewett, a planetary scientist from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and member of the MESSENGER science team, about a new landform discovered on the [...]

October 13th, 2011

October 13th: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Color Views of the Sun

Date: October 13, 2011 Title: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Color Views of the Sun Podcaster: George Cooper and Mike Edwards Links: http://www.science20.com/solar_fun_of_the_heliochromologist/blog/the_color_of_the_sun http://www.science20.com/solar_fun_of_the_heliochromologist/the_color_of_the_sun_part_ii http://www.science20.com/solar_fun_of_the_heliochromologist/the_color_of_the_sun_revelation http://solar-center.stanford.edu/suns-color-story/index.html http://solar-center.stanford.edu/suns-color-story/page22.html The first three are the links to a three-part blog, which is done a bit tongue-n-cheek. The third is the best of the three and presents the color [...]

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