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March 21st, 2010

March 21st: Dark Skies Crusader Sheds Light on Light Pollution

Date: March 21, 2010
Title: Dark Skies Crusader Sheds Light on Light Pollution
Podcaster: Constance Walker
Links: www.darksky.org,
www.earthhour.org,
www.darkskiesawareness.org/idsw.php,
and www.starlight2007.net
Description: With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. This loss, caused by light pollution, is a concern on many fronts: safety, energy conservation, cost, health [...]

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March 20th, 2010

March 20th: The March Equinox: International Unity Day

Date: March 20, 2010
Title: The March Equinox: International Unity Day
Podcaster: Judith Young
Organization: The Foundation for Astronomy and Spirituality, Inc. - http://www.astronomyandspirituality.com
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst - http://www.umass.edu/sunwheel
Description: What are the astronomical characteristics of the March Equinox? This podcast covers the uniqueness of the Equinox in terms of the sunrise and sunset directions, the length of time the [...]

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March 19th, 2010

March 19th: Why Go to the Zoo?

Date: March 19, 2010
Title: Why Go to the Zoo?
Podcaster: Dr. Alex 'Sandy' Antunes
Organization: Project Calliope LLC - http://projectcalliope.com/
http://scientificblogging.com/sky_day--
Email: antunes@nasw.org
Description: Anyone can help discover new stuff in Galaxy Zoo- but why do people bother in the first place? Jordan Raddick responds with some unexpected insight into why people donate their time for open science.
Bio: Born in the heart of a [...]

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March 18th, 2010

March 18th: Father and Son at the Eyepiece

Date: March 18, 2010
Title: Father and Son at the Eyepiece
Podcaster: Edward Gomez
Organization: Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network - http://lcogt.net
Description: I explore my childhood experiences of astronomy with my dad, and how it inspired me to be a professional astronomer. We talk about building a telescope in the garden of the family home and why my grandfather was consider [...]

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March 17th, 2010

March 17th: Why Do the Planets Stay in Orbit?

Date: March 17, 2010
Title: Why Do the Planets Stay in Orbit?
Podcaster: Stuart Clark
Link: http://www.stuartclark.com
Description: Why do the planets stay in orbit? And why doesn’t the Moon fall out of the sky.
Bio: Dr Stuart Clark is an award-winning astronomy author and journalist. His books include The Sun Kings, and the highly illustrated Deep Space, and Galaxy. His next book [...]

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March 16th, 2010

March 16th: Scouting Merit Badge

Date: March 16, 2010
Title: Scouting Merit Badge
Podcaster: Damian Handzy
Description: A Ukrainian boy scout troop describes what it takes to earn the merit badge in Astronomy, and their counselor talks about how important it is to have knowledgeable people instructing scouts in the sciences. The scouts cover requirements about the constellations, the moon, the sun and the planets.
Bio: Luca [...]

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March 15th, 2010

March 15th: Julius Caesar and the Calendar Reform

Date: March 15, 2010
Title: Julius Caesar and the Calendar Reform
Podcaster: Zachary Kessin and Julia Smith
Description: Is today really the 15th of March? Calendars are attempts to track the planet's movement around the sun, but they don't always work so well.
Bio: Zachary Kessin is a software engineer with Mytopia in Petach Tikva Israel. He lives in the city [...]

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March 14th, 2010

March 14th: A Guide to the Stars and Planets

Date: March 14, 2010
Title: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen
Links: Loch Ness Productions (http://www.lochnessproductions.com/index2.html)
Music by Geodesium (http://www.geodesium.com)
Description: TheSpacewriter reviews one of her favorite astronomy books – A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, by Jay M. Pasachoff.
Bio: Carolyn Collins Petersen is a science writer and show producer for Loch Ness Productions, a [...]

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March 13th, 2010

March 13th: I “Heart” Hartley 2!

Date: March 13, 2010
Title: I "Heart" Hartley 2!
Podcaster: Elizabeth Warner, U Maryland
Organization: EPOXI Mission: epoxi.umd.edu
Description: The Eastern Seaboard of the US is all too familiar with snow and have probably seen more than enough dirty snowballs! But cometary scientists are eager for more. With the successful completion of the Stardust and Deep Impact missions, NASA had two working spacecraft [...]

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March 12th, 2010

March 12th: The Hunt For Vulcanoids

Date: March 12, 2010
Title: The Hunt For Vulcanoids
Podcaster: Bob Hirshon
Organization: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): http://www.aaas.org
Description: For nearly a hundred years, scientists have wondered if there might be a band of asteroids as large as 60 km wide orbiting the Sun, in a gravitationally stable zone that’s closer to the sun than the orbit of Mercury. [...]

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