Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : David Dickinson, Kimberly Cartier, Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Space News Roundup!
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
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Description: This Week’s Stories:
- Something smacked into Jupiter! For science!!!
- Blue Origins launches, rinses & repeats!
- A new exoplanet search spectrograph: NEID.
- Q: What big questions are there that lowering launch costs can answer?
- Q: What are the chances of having an exosolar system aligned for transits?
- Q: In exo-transits, can you detect debris disks, exo-Kuiper belts etc.?
- This Week in Musk: Another launch to the ISS & barge landing!
- Japan’s Venus orbiter Akatsuki, saved last year, reaches its final modified orbit.
- Japan’s Hitomi X-ray observatory goes tumbling and may be permanently lost.
- The US Navy returns to celestial navigation as a precaution!
- ALMA studies TW Hydrae’s debris disk & may have found evidence of a habitable zone exoplanet.
- Q: What are you WSHers doing for the 2017 total solar eclipse?
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
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )
Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ / @MorganRehnberg )
Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ / @Astroguyz )
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