Show #7: Do Minor Planets get Carded?

Title: Do Minor Planets Get Carded?
Castdate: 050425
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela
Topics: asteroids, minor planets, spitzer space telescope
Engineered: Travis

• Transcript
• NASA Press Release
• Space Today
• Universe Today
• Asteroid Belt by Wikipedia
• BBC
• Spitzer’s Innovative Orbit

No, Pamela doesn’t really like the Yankees. She really doesn’t care for sports at all. This is what she gets for being on a show with 2 guys.

As promised, the color of dust:

Interview with Dr. Bryan Gaensler

Castdate: 050421
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela, Aaron and Bryan Gaensler
Topics: Astronomers, Australia, magnetars, supernovae, fame, Boston, the CfA
Engineered: Travis

Pamela, Travis and Aaron interviewed Dr. Bryan Gaensler in the courtyard of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Bryan is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard and was the 1999 Young Australian of the Year. He works with Pamela and Aaron took a class from him once. Their verdict? All around nice guy and smart! (i.e., not one of us).

Pix:

Pamela, Bryan, Travis (Aaron is the invisible one in the middle)


The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Concord Ave. entrance.


Parking ticket Aaron and Travis got for parking during the interview. Want to help pay for it? Donate!

Show #6: Death of a Disco Star

Episode #6
Title: Death of a Disco Star
Subjects: white dwarfs, sakurai’s object, v4334 sgr, planetary nebulae
CastDate: 050418
Written By: Aaron Price and actually made correct by Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle

• Transcript
• Spaceflight Now article
• ESO’s 1996 press release
• AAVSO’s Variable Star of the Season: Sakurai’s Object
• BBC on diamond stars

Kudos to anyone who can place the reference for the show’s title…

Show #5: Big Bad Astronomer

“Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking,
And when she passes
each one she passes goes a-a-ah!

When she walks she’s like a samba that,
Swings so cool and sways so gentle,
That when she passes
each one she passes goes a-a-ah!…”

…oops, sorry about that. It’s summer time and I’m getting carried away. Back to the Show Notes.

Show #5
Title: The Big Bad Astronomer
Subject: Skepticism, interview
CastDate: 050412
Written By: Slacker Astronomy & The Bad Astronomer
Disembodied Voices: Pamela, Aaron and Phil Plait
Engineered: Pamela Gay

• BadAstronomy.com
• Bad Astronomy Book
• Lyrics from the Girl From Impanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim

Don’t forget that the entire unedited interview is available on the Slacker Astronomy Extra Feed.

Pamela und Phil:

MM #1: The Big Bang Rambles On

Monolithic Monologue #1 Title: Life, the Universe and Microbes on Raisins Subject: Big Bang, CMB, pigeons CastDate: 050407 Show Tyrant: Pamela L. Gay Transcript

WMAP image of CMB

Show #4: Going BOOM

These suicidal stars lurk in Westerlund 1, one of the densiest and richest star clusters known, and the first super star cluster found in our own Milky Way. (above right, ESO image)

Episode #4 Title: Going BOOM! Subjects: star clusters, Wolf-Rayet stars, black holes CastDate: 050404 Written By: Pamela Gay w/additional material by Aaron Price Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay with our Imperial Overlord Engineered: Travis Searle Transcript Westerlund 1 Press Release M74 Press Release Science News Story on Westerlund 1

2MASS image