Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Maggie Scholtz, Paul Sutter, Morgan Rehnberg, Dave Dickinson
Title: Weekly Space Highlight: Searching or Earth-like Planets with Sara Seager!
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/tT-muxH9Crs
Description: This Week’s Stories:
- “The Martian” movie will be out soon!
- Pluto images show snake skin terrain! Similar to Triton’s cantaloupe terrain.
- Lunar eclipse Sunday! Bring popcorn!
- Colliding black holes? Do gravity waves decay their mutual orbits?
- Rosetta is still at work! 67P has a water sublimation cycle!
- Orbiting exoplanet! Beta Pictoris B moves!
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
Our special guests this week is Maggie Scholtz (@martianmagster), who is a Mechanical Engineer working at JPL. She worked on the Curiosity Rover, primarily on the development of the drill and sampling system.
And our regular guests are:
– Dave Dickinson (@Astroguyz)
– Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg)
– Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter)
Today’s sponsor: Intro: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by — Celestron. From your first telescope to your precision observatory great instrument. Celestron has the perfect telescope to seed your experience level and budget. Find out more at celestron.com
Outtro: Thanks for listening. This episode was made possible thanks for support from Celestron.com. please explore the cosmos today
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