Podcaster: Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD ; Guest: Dr. Steve Maran
Title: H’ad astra historia Ep 103 – A Distinguished Career
Organization: Historical Astronomy Division
Link: https://had.aas.org/
Description:
Today’s guest: Dr. Steve Maran (retired from NASA and AAS) shares stories with us from his almost 70 years working, and having fun, in astronomy.
H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re here to share stories from and about the people who study the stars, planets, and the cosmos. We’ll be hearing from individuals who not only study the history of astronomy, but also those who lived it, who were “in the room” during pivotal events within the last 50 years or so.
podcast music: “Frost Waltz” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under creative commons: by attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Bio: Loretta Cannon, an AAS affiliate via Rose City Astronomers, is a member of the leadership committee for the Historical Astronomy Division (2023-2025). She is a polymath with degrees in anthropology, microbiology, and biochemistry, and has many years of experience in both the private sector and government. When not reading some of her way-too-many books, she watches BritBox, creates recipes, or plays in the garden. She chose science writing/editing in astronomy as a new career. In short, she’s a sciencephile-word-nerd-foodie-with-a-plant-habit who really likes the stars.
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Transcript:
Rather than provide a complete transcript, we’re sharing links for further reading for the topics or names you’ve heard in today’s episode: “A Distinguished Career”
Dr. Steve Maran: https://aas.org/stephen-p-maran
Minor planet 9768 Stephenmaran: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=9768
American Meteor Society (meteor shower calendar): https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/
Kitt Peak National Observatory: https://kpno.noirlab.edu/
Remotely (Robotically) Controlled Telescope: https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/kitt-peak-national-observatory/rct/
Roger Lynds: https://baas.aas.org/pub/2024i002/release/1 and: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/celestial-cold-case-lynds-object/
Arno Penzias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Allan_Penzias
Orbiting Solar Observatory Program: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/missions/oso.html
Comet Kohoutek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek
Skylab’s Operation Kohoutek: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/skylab-4/#:~:text=An%20early%20discovery%20of%20a,%2C%20unmanned%20satellites%2C%20and%20Skylab and: https://www.nasa.gov/skylab/
Steve Maran’s Dec 2023 article for HAD’s This Month in Astronomical History, “Comet Kohoutek, Skylab, and More”: https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/12/month-astronomical-history-december-2023
Walter Cronkite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE): https://science.nasa.gov/mission/iue/
First UV Obs of Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae (1983): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/symposium-international-astronomical-union/article/spectroscopy-of-extragalactic-planetary-nebulae-in-the-ultraviolet/34B3C08CF20F6D1AC93B7C10D81D62A3
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (for Hubble): https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979SPIE..172..254B/abstract
Nancy Grace Roman: https://science.nasa.gov/people/nancy-roman/
Crab Nebula Pulsar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar and: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-crab-nebula-seen-in-new-light-by-nasas-webb
Dr. Hong-Yee Chiu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong-Yee_Chiu and: https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/17/5/21/423985/Gravitational-collapseQuasi-stellar-radio-sources?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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