#18 - December 2013
AWESOME ASTRONOMY
English - December 01, 2013 01:44 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsScience science space astronomy astrophysics astropohography binoculars cosmology galaxies physics planets Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We have the planets, meteors showers and moon phases to look out for in December and a look at the deep sky objects in the constellations, Taurus & Gemini.
In the news we have Comet ISON at perihelion, a guide to comets, the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission and NASA’s MAVEN both setting sail for Mars and a bizarre asteroid that thinks it’s a comet. In the 5MC, Paul explains the mysterious and awe-inspiring majesty of a familiar object in the night sky – The Orion Nebula. Perfect to listen to as you observe it!
We open up our Christmas competition to win a year’s subscription to Astronomy Now magazine and the European Southern Observatory’s 2014 calendar.
We have two interviews this month – Dr Gareth Williams, who officially calculated Comet ISON’s trajectory, tells us all about the comet; and Dr Gerhard Schwehm, ESA Project Scientist on the Giotto and Rosetta comet-chasing spacecraft missions.
Finally, we answer listeners’ questions about the evidence for ancient alien visitors and the visibility of merging inactive black holes.