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Podcaster: Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD ; Guest: Dr. Steve Maran

Title: H’ad astra historia  Episode 104 A Distinguished Career part 2

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    

Supernova 1987a:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A and Chandra X-ray Observatory video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITvAdZzNFb0

Harlow Shapley:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlow_Shapley and a 1978 bio/memoir written by Bart Bok: https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/shapley-harlow.pdf

Bart J Bok:  https://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/bart-bok

and:  https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/4547/chapter/4

Martin Schwarzschild:  https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/schwarzschild-martin.pdf

Luigi G Jacchia:  https://baas.aas.org/pub/luigi-g-jacchia-1910-1996/release/2

Slide ruler:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

John C “Jack” Brandt – a fun article by his son Dr. Keith Brandt:  https://www.rockhurst.edu/news/02-18-2022/faculty-explores-universe-alongside-his-father-new-article and:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/451382.John_C_Brandt

Carl Sagan:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan and:  https://www.seti.org/csc

Frank Drake:  https://www.seti.org/frank-d-drake-1930-2022

Luna Zagorac’s H’ad astra historia interview:  https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/2024/04/30/apr-30th-egyptian-star-clocks/

Abell 370 image by Hubble:  https://esahubble.org/images/heic1711a/ and:  https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/25/2607-Image.html?news=true and Hubblesite video zooming in to Abell 370 (don’t watch standing up or you may fall down):  https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/48-Video

Transit of Venus:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus and:  https://science.nasa.gov/resource/venus-transit-across-the-sun-2014/

(I know the title of the NASA article includes “2014” but that’s a typo!  It’s all about the 2012 transit, I promise.)

Dorrit Hoffleit:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrit_Hoffleit and:  https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/dorrit-hoffleit

Nova Herculis 1963:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V533_Herculis

Comet Ikeya-Seki 1965:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ikeya%E2%80%93Seki and:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1966/05/the-great-comet-of-1965/660567/

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