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Live AFM*Radio Event: MOONWATCH! Oct 26th ONLY!

October 26 2009 04:21 UTC | Views: 938 | Comments: 0
Posted by: Michael SkyGuide in AFM*Radio

Live AFM*Radio Event:
MOONWATCH!

Join Astronomy.FM, in cooperation with astronomers around the world, as we broadcast an International Year of Astronomy special event: MOONWATCH!

AFM*Radio will be joined by astronomers Adrian West and Elias Jordan, and many others, in a special 6-hour live astronomy world-wide event!

The broadcast is on October 26th, starting at 3pm U.S. Eastern Time (a.k.a. 19:00 UT), and running until 9pm U.S. Eastern Time (01:00 UT on Tuesday), with live updates at the top and bottom of each hour.

Where would we be without the Moon in our sky? That is one of the questions for philosophers and scientists that will be considered tonight, as AFM*Radio gears up to participate in an international astronomy event - Moonwatch!

Ever since humanity has had the ability to look up and wonder about the Universe above us, we have gazed upon the Moon and were awestruck by her beauty and mystery.

The Moon has been such a tease - much bigger and brighter than anything else in the night sky, and with fully half of Luna turned away from us, never seen by human eyes.

This is the 50th anniversary of the first time humanity has gazed upon the Far Side of the Moon. Lunik 3, the Soviet Union's third attempt to discover what lay over the Moon's horizon, transmitted home its first images of a world never before seen by human eyes. We will celebrate not just this event, but also the history of mankind's burning desire to learn more about our mysterious Moon.

Tonight we will explore the moon using a number of modern technology tools that even the wildest dreamers of the 20th Century could not have imagined. Moonwatch is a multi-media / new-media project, with live updates on Twitter, live video on Ustream, and live radio and chat on Astronomy.FM.

Follow the links below to learn more, and JOIN US tonight for this special International Year of Astronomy live event!

Check out the links below to learn more about Moonwatch, or just tune in tonight's show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kbw4pEnWCU
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Moonwatch
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/moonwatch---usa
http://newburyas.wordpress.com/
http://amandabauer.blogspot.com/2009/10/space-day-and-moon-watch.html
http://www.astronomy2009.co.uk/index.php/news-mainmenu-37/22-announcements/109-twitter-moonwatch
http://www.newburyas.org.uk/
http://twitter.com/Newburyas
http://twitter.com/ksastro
http://twitter.com/astronomy2009uk
http://www.astronomy2009.co.uk/
http://www.scibuff.com/moonwatch/archive.php#
http://www.astronomy2009.co.uk/index.php/moonwatch-projectsmenu-53

*************** May you have clear skies & a star to steer by! **************

* Michael Foerster / The SkyGuide *
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>SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW ELEMENT: ADMINISTRATIUM<
ANN ARBOR, MI - The heaviest element known to Science has been discovered by physicists at the University of Michigan.

The element, tentatively named administratium (Ad) has no protons or electrons, which means that it has atomic number 0 and falls outside the natural patterns exhibited by all other known elements. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistants to the neutron, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistants to the vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312. The 312 particles are held together by a force involving the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called "memos".

Because it has no protons or electrons, administratium is inert. Nonetheless, it can be detected chemically, in that it seems to impede every reaction in which it is present. According to one of the discoverers, even a small amount of administratium made one reaction which normally lasts less than one second take more than four days.

Administratium has a half-life of approximately three years. It does not actually decay; instead, it undergoes a reorganization in which a vice neutron, assistants to the vice neutron, and certain assistants to the neutron exchange places. Some studies have indicated that its mass actually increases after each reorganization, although this has yet to be explained. Another phenomenon which has been observed (as expected from the mechanics of minute particles) is that the more one tries to pin down the positions of the vice neutrons within the structure of administratium, the more uncertain those positions become.

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