SOFIA, Nobel and Kuiper - What's in a Name?
Walkabout the Galaxy
English - October 10, 2017 03:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 109 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Comedy humor addiedove adriennedove astronomy colwell joshcolwell joshuacolwell planetarysciences science ucf Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The astroquarks welcome WMFE space reporter Brendan Byrne who recounts his flight on the SOFIA airborne observatory. They hen vent about how the Nobel Prize committee has unaccountably once again passed them over. Here about this year's winners in physics, and a discussion of the history of the Kuiper Belt in this episode's space trivia.