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Astronomycast, episode 302 from Monday, April 15, 2013, planetary motion in the sky.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of University Day.

And with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Everett'sville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well. Almost got hit by a hurricane.

Not a hurricane. Wish it was a hurricane. Almost got hit by a tornado on Friday night.

Yeah.

That was interesting, but things are better now.

Good, good. Yeah, that sounds like it was pretty scary there for a little while.

Yeah, don't drive into a funnel cloud.

Okay, that's good advice. That's news you can use.

So we've got sort of an epic thing coming up.

We do. On June 15, 16, we are going to take our funding into our own hands and take a page from the Jerry Lewis telephone playbook.

A skeptics guide to the universe.

Well, at them too.

Yeah.

Host a epic 24, maybe even 36 hour, hang out a thorn using the Google Hangout on air technologies.

We are going to bring you scientists, science entertainers, communicators, virtual star parties, hands on demos, cooking planets.

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