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Interview: Kevin Krisciunas

Mike Simonsen interviews Kevin Krisciunas about his recent paper that describes how to measure the eccentricity of the moon's orbit with a yardstick and some cardboard and lots of other stuff.

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An interview with Steve Howell from NOAO about the Kepler mission, extrasolar asteroids and Ophiuchans.

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The folks at citizensky.org made this cool Lite Brite video about Epsilon Aurigae.

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Michael, Doug and Mike discuss heat, temperature, thermodynamics, black bodies and associated hot topics.

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Mike interviews Caroline Moore, the youngest discoverer of a supernova and Michael, Doug and Mike dicuss supernovae in general in some detail.

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Michael, Doug and Mike discuss the charge coupled device (CCD), answer reader mail about cosmology and interivew Slacker Blogger Ben Huset.

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A thorough and lengthy show about the North Star, Polaris, including an interview with Dr. Edward Guinan.

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3 Questions. First question: Should Pluto be a planet?

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Rebekah and Travis tell the story of V838 Mon, a planet eater or just a really weird star?

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3 Questions. Second question: Are there extra-terrestrials?

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A tour of the Harvard University Oak Ridge Observatory and the OpticalSETI telescope there

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Some dumb questions asked of smart people at the AAS meeting in Seattle.

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Mike and Aaron wander the posters on day two of the AASmeeting in Seattle

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Dr. Doug Welch interviews Dr. Travis Rector, a science visualizerwith NOAO and Gemini observatories.

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Tonya, Michael and Travis wander the halls in search of hotastronomers. Filmed at the 209th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle,WA.

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Fun with the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

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Michael, Doug and proto-Slacker Mike Simonsen discuss Citizen Sky, Jupiter, Stardust, Active SETI and much, much more.

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Doug and Michael interview cosmologist Dr. Evalyn Gates about white dwarfs, dark matter, dark energy and women in science.

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Doug Welch interview Peter Brookhouse about protecting Australia's observatories from bush fires.

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Mike Simonsen interviews Christopher Tout, Paula Szkody and Boris Gaensicke about cataclysmic variable stars.

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