Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Michael Prokosch, Tim Spuck, Vivian White, Jolene Creighton, Brian Koberlein, Morgan Rehnberg and Alessondra Springmann
Title: Weekly Space Highlight: Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/5wyfJE7ix40
Description: This Week’s Stories:
– The close-up images of Ceres and the white spots…
– New LORRI images of Pluto are radioed back home
– Electrons are mediators in comet tails
– The quest to find Philae
– The trailer for “The Martian” is out
– LightSail Team Declares Solar Sail Success as the sail unfurls
– NASA’s Low density supersonic decelerator test looses its parachute
– 17-year-old Schoolboy discovers a huge alien planet 1,000 light-years from Earth
– Saturn’s outermost ring stuns astronomers
– Airbus unveils Adeline, its clever answer to SpaceX’s reusable rockets
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Special Guests: This week we welcome Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program
Participants:
Michael Prokosch (Seeing Stars Blog, MikeProkosch@shsuobservatory)
Tim Spuck (tspuck@nrao.edu)
Vivian White (vwhite@astrosociety.org)
Guests:
Jolene Creighton (@jolene723 / http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/ )
Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein / http://briankoberlein.com/ )
Morgan Rehnberg (@MorganRehnberg / http://cosmicchatter.org/ )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy / http://www.sondy.com/ )
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