November 28th: An Armchair Tour of the Universe in 10 Minutes
Date: November 28, 2009 Title: An Armchair Tour of the Universe in 10 Minutes Podcaster: Rob Bowman Organization: None Description: The universe is simply vast. It's enormous in ways our brains cannot fully comprehend. Despite this, we also have the sort of brains that need to at least try to make sense of the scale of things if we hope to understand them. In this short podcast we will be taking a tour of the entire universe, so hold on to your hats! Along the way, we'll see moons, planets, stars, galaxies, vast clouds of interstellar dust and distant bea

November 27th: Channeling Galileo
Date: November 27, 2009 Title: Channeling Galileo Podcaster: Mark Thompson Organization: Galileo 1610: http://www.galileo1610.com/ Description: What is it like to be Galileo? Mark Thompson shares some personal reflections of his experiences impersonating the famous Italian astronomer and raconteur Galileo Gallilei for over a decade, and especially during the International Year of Astronomy. Bio: Mark Thompson, a professional cantor and amateur astronomer, has appeared as Galileo on ra

November 26th: The LSST & You – a New Way to Observe!
Date: November 26, 2009 Title: The LSST & You – a New Way to Observe! Podcaster: Suzanne Jacoby and assorted LSST Project Members Organization: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (www.lsst.org) Description: The LSST is a new kind of telescope. With a light-gathering power among the largest in the world, it can detect faint objects with short exposures. Its uniquely wide field of view allows it to observe large areas of the sky at once; compact and nimble, it can move quickly between images. Taking more than 800 panoram

November 25th: The Case of the Lobate Scarps
Date: November 25, 2009 Title: The Case of the Lobate Scarps Podcaster: Carolyn Collins Petersen Organization: Loch Ness Productions (http://www.lochnessproductions.com/index2.html) Music by Geodesium (http://www.geodesium.com) Description: Meet shadowy planetary science detective Caloris Basin as she outlines the case of Mercury’s lobate scarps. This tale of planetary science intrigue began with the Mariner mission and continues with the Mercury MESSEN

November 24th: On the Screen: Science Fact vs. Science Fiction
Date: November 24, 2009 Title: On the Screen: Science Fact vs. Science Fiction Podcaster: Jane Platt and Kevin Grazier Organization: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Description: Some science fiction movies and TV shows are just that: fiction. But you can find nuggets of science facts in some of them, including some based on actual space research and space missions. In this conversation, scientist Kevin Grazier of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works on the Cassini mission to Saturn, explains how some scie