Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Join Captains Marty and Diane as they share tall tales
of the High Space Seas, on Space Pirate Radio!
- Astronauts ride Soyuz to the International Space Station
- What do you think was the first object to be called a planet?
- Jupiter tonight!
- Dante’s Solar System
- October’s AAPOD winner
- Constellations and asterisms in the Autumn
- What’s the other evening planet?
- Sunspots lately
- Powering probes; Curiosity is getting ready for Mars
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
On “The Event^Horizon!” hosts Nick Evetts and Marty Kunz are again joined by Astronomy.FM’s newest SkyGuide – John Schroer (former Planetarium Director of the Detroit Science Center, and host of the TV show “Astronomy for Everyone”) Tonight:
- Discussion about traveling to Mars plus failed probes past and present
- Asteroid 2005 YU55 didn’t kill us
- Carl Sagan’s influence on modern astronomers
- The Sun may be sending aurora our way this weekend
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Join Captains Marty and Diane as they share tall tales of the High Space Seas, on Space Pirate Radio!
Did asteroid 2005 YU55 miss the Earth on it’s own or was it deflected?- The full Moon and Jupiter, two (pirate) ships that pass in the night, tonight.
- Happy birthday Carl Sagan! Who will be the next best popularizer of astronomy for the general public?
- Can the Earth be saved from one of it’s own satellites, or do the Space Pirates need to be called in again? (And so soon!)
“Space Pirate Radio” and Astronomy.FM are sponsored by Global-Rent-A-Scope – GRAS
THE Global Remote Telescope Network
for Astromony. Imaging or Science.
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Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, Asteroid 2005 YU55, astronomy news, astronomy radio, Astronomy.FM, Diane Hall, Global-Rent-A-Scope, GRAS, imaging, Jupiter, Mars, Marty Kunz, Moon, Phobos, Phobos-Grunt, Roscosmos, sky events, Space Pirate Radio, space probes, space science, spaceflight
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Tonight on “York∞Universe!”, live from Toronto’s York University:
~ An interview with astronomer Amelia Ortiz-Gil, of the University of Valencia
~ Supernovae
~ Asteroid 2005 YU55, which whizzes past Earth TOMORROW!
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
On Space Pirate Radio tonight Marty and Diane discuss:
- The latest meteor showers
- Is there a Nemesis star lurking as the edge of the solar system?
- The Moon, planets and a giant sunspot
- Spotting asteroid 2005 Yu55
- The Chinese space station Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”)
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
It’s a York Halloween special! In tonight’s YorkUniverse – Paul is back in Canada after circling the globe! He is joined by Ted as they welcome a former York collegue – Sarah Sadavoy (now an astronomer at the University of Victoria) – as they discuss stellar evolution, Pluto’s moons, and remember Pleiades.
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Event^Horizon – with Nick Evetts & Marty Kunz – rubber pants optional….
Tonight, over the Horizon:
- Halloween Movies
- Jupiter at Opposition
- The most deadly things about space.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Tonight on Space Pirate Radio – The crew talks about missing satellites and missing Moon rocks. Also, aurora and their impact on the power grid. In sky events, keeping an eye on the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter.
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