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Date: December 31, 2009 Title: The IYA New Media Working Group Bids 2009 Adieu! Podcaster: The IYA New Media Working Group Description: The year closes on this humble but successful effort for the International Year of Astronomy. But it was a great year! So great, in fact, that we’re going to do it again in 2010! Bio: Michael Koppelman is part of Slacker Astronomy. You can find Pamela Gay on Astronomy Cast and at Star Styder. Nancy Atkinson writes for [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: December 30, 2009 Title: Skylights 2010 Podcaster: Patrick McQuillan Organization: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Description: A quick run down of the astronomy and space program highlights for 2010. Get out your calendar and mark the important dates to remember for next year. Finally a podcast that you can listen to for an entire year! Song at the end of the podcast is “Next Year” by the Foo Fighters Bio: Patrick McQuillan earned a B.S. degree [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: December 29, 2009 Title: Decoding Iapetus: An Exercise in “Sybil” Engineering Podcaster: Kevin Grazier Links: Cassini mission, CICLOPS Cassini image site. Description: If planetary scientists could take the moons of Saturn and, knowing what we know, re-assign the names already given them, the moon Iapetus would certainly become Janus. Janus was a two-faced god from Roman mythology, and Iapetus is the most two-faced object in the Solar System. Bio: Dr. Kevin Grazier is the Investigation Scientist and [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: December 28, 2009 Title: Life in Technicolor Podcaster: Maria Pereira Organization: Columbia University Astronomy http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu Description: What will plants on other worlds look like? Will they be green and leafy as on Earth? Or could there be planets with purple trees? Black grassy plains? Orange marshes? These questions might seem purely speculative, something out of a technicolor daydream, but, in reality, their answers are bringing us closer to finding the first signs of extraterrestrial life. Unfortunately, they [...]
Date: December 27, 2009 Title: The Protestant Galileo Podcaster: Ted Haulley Contact: E-Mail thaulley@yahoo.com Description: Johannes Kepler was a contemporary of Galileo who also supported heliocentrism. His three laws of planetary motion are so fundamental that they still the basis for studies in planetary motion. He made his discoveries among personal and religious turmoil surrounding him. Today’s episode will look at the complicated life of Johannes Kepler, born on this date in 1571. Bio: This will be Ted’s fifth contribution [...]
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