Ep. 364: The COROT Mission

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Before NASA’s Kepler mission searched for exoplanets using the transit method, there was the European COROT mission, launched in 2006. It was sent to search for planets with short orbital periods and find solar oscillations in stars. It was an...

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Ep. 363: Where Did Earth’...

Posted by susie on Jan 21, 2015

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Where on Earth did our water come from. Well, obviously not from Earth, of course, but from space. But did it come from comets, or did the water form naturally right here in the Solar System, and the Earth just...

Ep. 362: Modern Women: Carolyn...

Posted by susie on Jan 12, 2015

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) It hard to think of a more influential modern planetary scientist than Carolyn Porco, the leader of the imaging team for NASA’s Cassini mission exploring Saturn. But before Cassini, Porco was involved in...

Ep. 361: Modern Women: Maria Z...

Posted by susie on Jan 5, 2015

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Maria Zuber is one of the hardest working scientists in planetary science, being a part of six different space missions to explore the Solar System. Currently, she’s the lead investigator for NASA’s GRAIL...

Ep. 360: Modern Women: Jocelyn...

Posted by susie on Dec 29, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an Irish astronomer, best known for being part of the team that discovered pulsars, and the following controversy when she was excluded from the Nobel Prize winning team. Ep. 360:...

Ep. 359: Modern Women: Margare...

Posted by susie on Dec 15, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Margaret Geller is best known for her work on the large scale structure of the Universe, helping us understand the large clusters, super clusters and cosmic filaments that matter clumps into. Ep. 359: Modern...

Ep. 358: Modern Women: Sandra ...

Posted by susie on Dec 8, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Our focus on female astronomers continues with Sandra Faber, and Professor of Astronomy at UC Santa Cruz. Faber was part of the team that turned up the Great Attractor, a mysterious mass hidden by the disk of the...

Ep. 357: Modern Women: Vera Ru...

Posted by susie on Dec 1, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) It’s time for another series. This time we’ll be talking about famous female astronomers. Starting with: Vera Rubin, who first identified the fact that galaxies rotate too quickly to hold themselves...

Ep. 356: Rotational Inertia

Posted by susie on Nov 24, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) An object at rest stays at rest, and object in motion tends to stay in motion. This is inertia, defined famously by Isaac Newton in his First Law of Motion. Download MP3:[Ep. 356: Rotational Inertia] Jump to...

Ep. 355: Maker Space: 3D Print...

Posted by susie on Nov 19, 2014

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Getting stuff into space is complicated and expensive. And what do you do when your fancy space gadget breaks. You print out a new one, of course, with your fancy space 3D printer. It turns out, space exploration is...

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Episode List

Ep. 364: The COROT Mission

Ep. 363: Where Did Earth’s Water Come From?

Ep. 362: Modern Women: Carolyn Porco

Ep. 361: Modern Women: Maria Zuber

Ep. 360: Modern Women: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Ep. 359: Modern Women: Margaret Geller

Ep. 358: Modern Women: Sandra Faber

Ep. 357: Modern Women: Vera Rubin

Ep. 356: Rotational Inertia

Ep. 355: Maker Space: 3D Printing Exploration