Show #23: Remapping small town NGC 300

CastDate: 050819
Title: Remapping small town NGC 300
Written By: Pamela
Disembodied Voices: Pamela, Travis
Engineered: Travis

Links:

• Transcript
• Gemini Observatory Press Release
• ESO Press Release
• Wikipedia definition of Parallax
• Wikipedia definition of Angular Size

A simulation showing the formation and evolution of a ‘disk galaxy’ like our own Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: Jesper Sommer-Larsen, Martin Goetz and Laura Portinari (Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen), and Martin Laursen (Copenhagen Observatory).

Tiny Specks Of Fun (Show #22)

CastDate: 050819
Title: Tiny Specks of Fun
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela, Travis
Engineered: Travis

A tiny meteor 10 microns across. Looks harmless. But at 40 kilometers a second you better duck.

• Transcript
• Our SA Extra Persieds Sound Seeing Tour
• Meteorobs mailing list
• International Meteor Organization
• North American Meteor Network
• Perseids report from Sky & Telescope.
• American Meteor Society
• Gif Animation of Leonid Fireball
• Sound of a meteor shower via radio
• One of Aaron’s recordings - And another.

Leonid meteors seen from above from the International Space Station.

SA Extra: A Watched Sky Never Falls

This is a sound seeing tour from Cape Ann, Massachusetts where Aaron, Pamela and their friends Anton and Matt gathered to watch the Perseid meteor show through sucker holes in the clouds. Pamela also gives a mini tour of some of the summmer stars and objects to see with binoculars. ~55minutes.

The show ends abruptly because our battery died and technical problems prevented the use of our music. A banana for anyone who can ID where the closing sound comes from.

Castdate: 050818
Disembodied Voices: Pamela, Aaron, Anton, whispers from Matt
Engineered: Aaron
Subjects: Meteors, weather, lots of stream of consciousness

• International Meteor Organization
• Meteorobs Mailing List
• Antonshevchenko.com
• Halibut Point (Google Maps)
• DEET

To Be or Not To Be (Show #21)

Castdate: 050808
Title: To Be or Not To Be
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis (and a snippet from the Trujillo interview)
Produced By: Travis

Show Notes

• Transcript
• Our Full Interview With Dr. Trujillo
• 2003 UB313 via Wikipedia
• Brown’s web page
• Gemini’s Spectra
• Universe Today planetary evolution podcast

With minor planets in the majority, its a good thing for Pluto that the solar system isn’t a democracy.

SA recommends “Planet Fnord.”

SA on BBC Five Live

The show will be about space podcasting and web sites. We will also record it and put it on our SA Extra bonus feed.

Listen online here.

Show #20: Neutrons play Hide and Quake

Castdate: 050802
Title: Neutrons play Hide and Quake
Written By: Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Pamela Gay, Travis Searle
Engineered By: Travis

• Transcript
• UCSD Press Release on Neutron Star Quakes
• ESA Press Release on Norma’s Shy Neutron Star
• Map and info on Norma

The folks at UCSD kindly provided an NSF movie on their website. Check it out here.