Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Dr. Paul M Sutter, Morgan Rehnberg, Dr. Brian Koberlein, Kimberly Cartier
Title: Weekly Space Highlight: Nobel Prizes, Private Moon Launches & Water on Pluto!
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
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Description: This Week’s Stories:
- New Horizons Finds Blue Skies (blue haze) and Water Ice on Pluto?
- Southampton researchers find a new way to weigh a pulsar
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- The First Private Lunar Mission Has Set a Launch Date for 2017
- Would a Pluto rover see blue skies?
- Neutron stars have jets, but do they have accretion disks?
- How does a binary star system work?
- What’s wrong with children going to space?
- What’s happening with Advanced LIGO and its search for gravity waves?
- When will NASA know what the surface features on Ceres are?
- Impact of Declining Proposal Success Rate on Scientific Productivity
- Repairs Completed at Orbital ATK’s Antares Launch Pad
- 20th anniversary of 51 Peg b
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
And our regular guests are:
Paul Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter )
Morgan Rehnberg ( cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Brian Koberlein ( @briankoberlein / briankoberlein.com )
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