Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Dr. Howard Trottier, Dave Dickinson, Kimberly Cartier, Paul M. Sutter
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Howard Trottier
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/FmJDawtSVKw
Description: This Week’s Stories:
- SpaceX sticks the barge landing! W00T!
- Alpha Centauri here we come?
- Mercury transit is coming, May 9th!
- ALMA has found a dark matter dominated dwarf galaxy.
- Kepler is back, baby! We dodged a bullet there…
- The Sun has a huge sunspot! Just don’t CMB us, please…
- Cassini tastes extrasolar dust! Yum!
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: Dr. Howard Trottier, a physics professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada. He has recently devoted his time to the development of SFU’s unique Astronomy public outreach program. In the heart of SFU’s main campus is a “”Science Courtyard,”” a high-profile public space devoted to astronomy and anchored by a state-of-the art outreach and teaching observatory. You can learn more about this amazing program here: https://www.sfu.ca/science/trottierobservatory.html
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )
Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com & @PaulMattSutter )
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