Meteors Striking the Moon

Bigger Than the Motor Car (Show #55)

Castdate: 060706
Written by: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis
Engineered: Travis
Rating: [OF] Office Friendly

• Transcript
• Squirt by Fluke
• Penn State Press Release
• SDSS press release
• The science paper
• Scientific American - good summary

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa007&articleID=00054F9D-371E-146A-B71E83414B7F0000

• How to build a real Tardis

Chit Chat Show #9

This week we have Mario Garcia as our in studio guest. He talks about recent trips on NASA’s Vomit Comet and other astronomy work he’s involved in. Also, Phil Plait returns and we have a wonderful visit from a friend we haven’t heard from in a long time - Derek of Skepticality. He has some awesome news to share also.

To the right is the SA seal by Sheala Bacon. Thanks, Sheala!

• Here is a link to a digital video feed of Mario’s flight (3MB WMV format)
• Badastronomy.com
• Skepticality podcast
• The Vomit Comet via Wikipedia
• Mobile Broadcast Network - listen to Slacker Astronomy on your cell phone

A rough order of things we covered:

-Listener Survey/Seal of Approval
-Exoplanet Discovery
-Mobil Broadcast Network
-WGBH
-Mario Garcia
-Derek
-Story Follow-ups
-Phil
-Listener Mail, Etc…

Skepticality…

And Phil…