Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Paul M. Sutter, Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Alan Stern, PI on New Horizons
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Description: This Week’s Stories:
- Eclipse MegaMovie https://eclipsemega.movie/
- Interesting data from ALMA explains spirals around a star!
- SpaceX plans to go around the Moon!
- LUX-Zeplin (LZ): the next generation dark matter detector.
- The Moon occulted Aldebaran.
- Kimberly Cartier defends her PhD on May 9th! W00t!
Each week we will have a random drawing for a prize package from our sponsor. Enter the code for this week into this site: https://cosmoquest.org/achievements/code for a chance to win.
This week’s code is 5IpDzS. Enter it into the website to unlock the achievement and enter the contest.
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern ( @AlanStern / @NewHorizons2015 ), is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been received.
Guests:
Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
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