Podcaster: Host :Fraser Cain; Guest :Paul MacNeal, Dr. Pamela L. Gay & Dr. Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Weekly Space Hangout : Guest: Paul MacNeal of JPL’s Annual Invention Challenge
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/DOvdLoS7qeI
Description: This week we catch up with a review of news from 2018!
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- A planetary disc that rolled over!
- Earth’s magnetic pole is wandering.
- There’s life on the Moon!
- An update on AT2018cow or SN 2018cow…
- Titan in IR.
Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Paul MacNeal, a mechanical systems engineer at JPL, created the Annual Invention Challenge twenty-one years ago after helping his son with an extra credit assignment. Since then, teams of high school students from around the world compete each year against JPL engineers to see who can design and build the smartest and most efficient machine. The objective of the 2018 Challenge, which took place on Friday, December 14th, was to “… get a 24-inch length of two-inch PVC pipe from a horizontal position to an upright position on a platform using whatever device they could come up with, instructions not included.”
To view the 2018 results – as well as those from the prior 20 challenges – visit the Invention Challenge website at https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/inventionchallenge/
Guests:
Dr. Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )
Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( https://cosmoquest.org/x/ & @Strastryder )
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