Thursday, October 25, 2007

October 24th show...

... is now online here. The program of this episode is the following:

  • News: NASA announces "retirement" of FUSE (ultraviolet) satellite, ESO decommissions TC-1 part of the Double Star mission, Rosetta mission to asteroid and comets approaches Earth for a boost and course correction, Integral (hard X-ray) satellites marks five very productive years from launch.
  • Recent Results: Genesis mission measurement of Ne and Ar isotropic composition of solar wind, chemical composition of near-Earth asteroid Apophis measured, Solar mission Ulysses flew through ion tail of comet - discovered much longer than expected, new results from long Chandra (X-ray) observation of Galactic supernova remnant G292.0+1.8, black hole in "nearby" galaxy M33 has been measured to have a mass of 16 times that of the Sun - the most massive black hole created by a single star that we currently know of, bright optical flash seen in galaxy M85 not from stellar merger but a low energy supernova explosion.
  • Calendar
  • Interview with Prof. Rothman of Princeton University on detecting gravitons, available by itself here.
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