Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Daniel Stern, Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier, Alessondra Springmann
Title: Weekly Space Highlight: Daniel Stern, Project Scientist on NuSTAR
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/tT-muxH9Crs
Description: This Week’s Stories:
- Pluto results from DPS. Specifically its smaller moons. Everything’s wrong…
- Comet 67P got lighter in color as it approached the Sun.
- Asteroids rotate oddly due to the YORP effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky%E2%80%93O%27Keefe%E2%80%93Radzievskii%E2%80%93Paddack_effect
- A new mathematical definition of planet is proposed to aid in exoplanet categorization.
- Solutions to the sexual harassment problem have been put forward at DPS.
- Possible ice volcanoes on Pluto.
- Meteor streams from comet Enke hit Mercury.
- Saturn’s co-orbital moons Epimetheus & Janus have gravitational interactions that cause them to swap orbits every 4 years, causing a wave to sweep through the rings.
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: Daniel Stern, Project Scientist on NuSTAR.
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )
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