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Podcast: Download Date: July 26th, 2012 Title: Bill Nye Says Curiosity Knows No Bounds—The Mars Science Laboratory Lands on the Red Planet Podcaster: Bill Nye the Science Guy and Mat Kaplan Organization: The Planetary Society Links: Planetary Society: http://planetary.org Description: Bill Nye the Science (and Planetary) Guy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Planetary Society, the world’s largest member-supported space interest group. Bill shares his passion for the Curiosity rover in this conversation with the Society’s Mat Kaplan, host [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: July 25th, 2012 Title: All the way up to Iron Podcaster: Julia Description: We all know that Stars fuse Hydrogen into all the other elements in the Universe. But most descriptions of this process just mention a few elements like Helium, Oxygen, Carbon, Neon and Silicon and then jump to “all the way up to Iron”. If you’re like me you’ve wondered just what ALL the steps are in between Hydrogen and the all important Iron. So [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: July 24th, 2012 Title: Astronomy Word of the Week : Yarkovsky Podcaster: Dr. Christopher Crockett Organization: United States Naval Observatory Link: http://christophercrockett.com http://earthsky.org/team/christophercrockett Description: Have any of Earth’s mass extinctions been caused by mere sunlight pushing asteroids around the solar system? The astronomy word of the week is “Yarkovsky”. Bio: Dr. Christopher Crockett is an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. His research involves searching for planets around very young stars (“only” a [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: July 23rd, 2012 Title: The View from LROC Podcaster: Nancy Atkinson and Lillian Ostrach Links: NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) – http://lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/ LROC website Music: ”Amelia” by Ben Bedford from his “Land of the Shadows” CD. http://benbedford.com/ Description: Have you ever you looked up at the full Moon on a clear night and wondered what it would be like to see it up close? With the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, we’re getting some of the best views [...]
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Podcast: Download Date: July 22nd, 2012 Title: Encore: Downsizing the Universe! Podcaster: Patrick McQuillan Organization: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) – www.iris.edu This podcast originally aired on October 2nd, 2010 http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/10/02/october-2nd-downsizing-the-universe/ Description: We always seem to be obsessed with discovering the largest, biggest examples of things in the Universe: the biggest star, the largest planet, the most massive black hole. In this episode we are going to look at all things astronomical to discover the SMALLEST versions of the [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 -- and now 2013. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world.
In 2013, we became of CosmoQuest and began to include video.
