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Podcaster: Host: Fraser Cain;  Astrojournalists: Scott Lewis, Nicole Gugliucci, Morgan Rehnberg, Brian Koberlein, Elizabeth Howell, Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson

Title:  Weekly Space Hightlight: New Impact on Mars & A Wobbly Planet

Link : http://cosmoquest.org

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Today’s stories:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter):  New Mars impact crater

Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer): Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality,  Shiny new radio image of M82 (but no supernova afterglow)

David Dickinson (@astroguyz): Venus in 2014,  Progress+launches for February, Space History-Curious Artifacts Sent Into Space

Elizabeth Howell (@howellspace): Astronomy Podcast Enters Sixth Year — And We’d Love For You To Contribute! ; Super-Earths Could Be More ‘Superhabitable’ Than Planets Like Ours

Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein); Scott Lewis (@baldastronomer); & Elizabeth Howell (@howellspace): ‘Wobbly’ Alien Planet Has Weird Seasons And Orbits Two Stars

Amy Shira Teitel (@astVintageSpace): When galaxies collide!

Scott Lewis (@baldastronomer): Gaia

Bio: Fraser Cain is a Universe Today Publisher 

Special Guests: Stephen Pakbaz, designer of the LEGO Mars Rover Kit, and Ray Sanders from CosmoQuest, who is unboxing and building the kit as we hang out!

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