Description of October 1st Radio Show: Astronomy News

Already available here, below is a detailed description of the October 1st episode of this radio show:

• Calendar of upcoming Astronomy/science events in the greater Poughkeepsie / New York City area.
• Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Katz of the Custer Institute and Observatory in Long Island on their public outreach and astronomy reseearch efforts.
• News: Phoenix Mars Lander finds evidence for snow falling in upper atmosphere of Mars as well as past presence of liquid water under the surface; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images fractures on Martian surface believed to be evidence of past water flow (link); rising costs might delay Mars Science Laboratory and possibly cancel future Mars missions; NASA hosted a teleconference last Monday to discuss Hubble malfunction and resultant delay to servicing mission; capsule returned by NASA's Stardust mission to go on display at Air & Space Museum; IBEX spacecraft attached to rocket, scheduled for October 19th launch; NASA investigating three possible designs for next satellite to study extra-solar planets (link, listen to my interview with Dr. Jennfier Wiseman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for more information on NASA's research program on exoplanets); Sloan Digital Sky Survey begins program to map galaxies in order to study dark energy (link); artificial meteorite built by ESA shows that some microbes can survive in space and re-entry into atmosphere (link); any future mission to the Moon will have to contend with the problem of moon dust (link); add your name to NASA's upcoming Glory satellite by going here; successful re-entry for ESA's Jules Verne ATV; ESA left with only 192 astronaut candidates after first round of psychological testing; NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff playing chess with Earthlings, go here to join in; NASA mission control now streaming live, 24/7/365, here.

Thank you very much for listening. Hope you enjoyed, and please email me or leave any comments you have below.