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Podcaster:  Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Miguel Drake-McLaughlin , Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier

Weekly-Space-HangoutTitle: Weekly Space Highlight: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Director of Sky Line

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Description: This Week’s Stories:

  • Observing exoplanet atmospheres from the ground! With small telescopes!
  • ULA is not bidding on an upcoming GPS sat. launch.
  • SpaceX is planning on a December launch and possible barge landing.
  • A “habitable” exoplanet isn’t so habitable after all. Danged M dwarves!
  • The most distant dwarf planet yet discovered.
  • The Curiosity rover visits dunes on Mars!
  • Can you see Saturn’s rings with 7×25 binocs?
  • Will New Horizons out perform the Voyagers and traverse the solar bow shock?
  • Can we see an exo
  • CME interact with an exoplanet?
  • Kimberly : aliens : : Tom Nathe : supernovae
  • Are we under the influence of Jupiter’s magnetic field?
  • Miguel joins us to talk about “Sky Line”, his space elevator documentary.

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page

Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today

Special Guest:Miguel Drake-McLaughlin ( @twiguel ), Director of the new documentary, Sky Line, The Space Elevator Documentary.

Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )

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