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From Light to Darkness - A Pluto Special on AFM*Radio!

From Light to Darkness - A Pluto Special on AFM*Radio!
Friday starting at 0200 on Friday, Feb 12th UTC (9pm Thursday, Feb 11th US EST)
(These programs wil then repeat for the rest of the day....)

We have a whole lotta Pluto and friends coming up on AFM*Radio!  (NOTE - the order of our three Pluto-themed programs today has been shuffled; the revised order of presentation is below.)



First up - a replay of a NASA Science briefing from last week, where the Hubble Space Telescope team released the latest images of Pluto (shown below).  Pluto is so far out in the Solar System, in the dark cold outer reaches of the Solar System, that it is on the edge of what even the Hubble can see.  Behold, below, the most detailed images ever taken of Pluto!  (Yes, not much to look at, but you just WAIT until NASA's New Horizon's mission gets there!  THEN we'll see jaw-dropping pictures!)  This briefing was given by Marc Buie, and by our guest next hour, Dr. Mike Brown.


In the second hour we will have as our live guest Dr. Mike Brown, the head of the team that discovered Eris, the largest body found in the Solar System in 150 years, and the world that led to the demotion of Pluto from a real planet to a dwarf planet.  He was also maned one of Wired Online's Top Ten Sexiest Geeks in 2006, which never ceases to make his wife laugh.






Batting Third - Dr. Dale Cruikshank, of NASA Ames Research Center, with a presentation:  "The Planet Pluto:  Maligned, but Not Forgotten!"  Dr. Cruikshank will review what we know about Pluto (including its atmosphere, of which he was a co-discoverer), why Pluto was re-classified as a dwarf planet in 2006, and what NASA's New Horizons mission may reveal about this distant world.


It's Pluto-Day, on AFM*Radio!


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> OTHER NAMES for "THE BIG BANG" (compiled by Ed Neuzil) <

The Bottom Turtle

(the Infinity symbol)

"That Point In Time When the Volume of the Universe Decreases to
Approximately Zero, and Density Approaches Infinity, and the
Combination of the Strong Nuclear Force and Electromagnetic
Attraction Between Red and Blue Colored Quar-- hey Steve, can't
we think up a nickname for this?!?"

The Best Of Times, The First Of Times

The Grand Opening Sale

*Pop* Goes Existence!

The Time, Space & Energy Factory Outlet Sale

A place for everything, and everything in one place. Then -- kaboom, everything all over the place.

    and the Number 1 Other Name for "The Big Bang"...

Dude, Where's My Void?


And, from from "Calvin & Hobbes":  The Horrendous Space Kablooey

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