October 3rd show...

... is finally online. The program was:

• News:
  
• Meteorite hits Peru, evidence that asteroid impact responsible for end of Pleistoscene era, nearby supernova explosion probably not responsible for odd isotope of Iron found deep in the ocean floor, Oxygen was present in Earth's atmosphere before "Great Oxidation Event", astronomers modeling atmospheres of wide variety of Earth-sized planets for future observations of transiting planets.
• NASA announces design for new lunar rover to build future Moon base, NASA runs new Lunar Collision observatory to study the distribution of nearby space rocks.
• NASA will send Stardust to Comet Tempel 1 hit by Deep Impact to study the crater left behind, Stereo observed a comet losing its tail due to a collision with a "coronal mass ejection" from the Sun, SOHO discovers a new, short-period "periodic" comet arounds the Sun, Mars rover gets to its located in Victoria Crater, Dawn is working just fine, variability seen in outer rings of Uranus.
• Very Large Telescope (VLT; and yes, that is the telescope's name) discovers dust ring in Ant Nebula, around red giant star which will one day form a planetary nebula possible likely the Ant Nebula
• X-ray emission from magnetar XTE J1810-197 used to infer size of area which caused a large outburst of X-ray emission and strength of surface magnetic field.
• Very bright outburst of radio emission seen in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, but not from this object. Origin is still completely unknown.

• Calendar
  
• Interview with Dr. Dan Babich of Cal Tech, talking about the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Full interview will be broadcast this Wednesday! I apologize for the weird audio format of the interview (my questions coming out of the left channel, his answers out of the right, and will rectify this for future shows).
  

As always, please email me, or leave in the comments section below, and questions / corrections / complaints you might have. Hope you enjoyed it.