Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Mike Simmons, Kimberly Cartier, Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Mike Simmons Highlights Global Astronomy Month
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Description: This Week’s Stories:
- Autopsying Hitomi
- Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars
- China studies making babies in space!
- Ultra-cool polar regions of Venus’s atmosphere
- Didn’t fruit flies reproduce on the ISS in an experiment?
- Could there be “sweet spots” on Venus where landing probes would be more practical?
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: Mike Simmons, Founder and President of Astronomers without Borders (http://astronomerswithoutborders.org), will be joining us to discuss the 2016 Global Astronomy Month (GAM)! http://gam-awb.org/ GAM is organized each April by Astronomers Without Borders and is the world’s largest global celebration of astronomy. Find out about the amazing GAM events going on all over the world and how YOU can get involved.
Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com & @MorganRehnberg )
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