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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Diane has taken the night off, so Marty (with fellow mutineers Nick and Paul) review the Sun and planets tonight. Can amateurs observe exoplanets M42 the great nebula in Orion? And laptop computer use in the field.
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Friday, November 25th, 2011
Captian’s Marty and Diane talk about ideas and hypothesis about astronomy that have proved wrong. How can you prove the age of the universe and where is it’s center? Are we at the center of anything? Do planets contain mysterious powers. Missing any planets anyone? The less you see the more there must be.
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Saturday, November 19th, 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 we welcome a special guest – Bob Lunsford of the American Meteor Society, on the occasion of their centenary! Bob talks about observing, recording, and submitting your meteor observations.
Also discussed tonight:
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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
“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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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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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
On “The Event^Horizon!” hosts Nick Evetts and Marty Kunz are 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 the giant and active sunspot group approaching the Sun’s meridian
- Asteroid 2005 YU55′s visibility as it screams past the Earth next week
- Meteor watching via radio
- A night of planets.
Links discussed in tonight’s show:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/mdi_sunspots_1024.jpg
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Asteroid_2005_YU55_To_Approach_Earth_Nov_8_2011_999.html
http://www.transitofvenus.org/
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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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