Show Notes: SG 7.0

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Castdate: 070915
Disembodied Voices: Doug, Michael, Travis and Timothy Ferris
Produced: Travis
Sponsored By: Swinburne Astronomy Online
Direct Link: MP3

• The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
  • http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/dao/index_e.html
• Eclipsing Cepheid variable stars
  • Dr. David Lepischak's wonderful and anatomically-correct animation of the eclipsing Cepheid MACHO 81.8997.87 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
    • http://crocus.physics.mcmaster.ca/ecl_cep5.avi
    • The paper about MACHO 81.8997.87 can be found at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402607
  • The freely-available version of the paper about the recently-discovered eclipsing binary Type 2 Cepheid in the Milky Way http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0605
• Google Earth gets the sky
  • http://earth.google.com/earth4.html
• The Perseids (The parent comet was Swift-Tuttle!)
  • http://meteorshowersonline.com/perseids.html
• Phoenix Mars Mission (Launched August 4, 2007 - don't let anyone tell you otherwise)
  • http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/
  • Arrives on Mars May 25, 2008
  • An image from the PMM's camera of its own scoop during the "Major Tom Cruise" portion of the mission can be found at http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=202&cID=1 (Such self-evaluative imagery is normally reserved for the Navel Obsservatory.)
• Interview: Timothy Ferris
  • http://www.timothyferris.com/
  • Description of the Golden Record on Voyager: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
• Seeing In The Dark
  • http://www.seeinginthedark.org/