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Astronomycast Episode 304 from Monday, April 29, 2013. Death of a spacecraft.

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 Cain. I'm the publisher of Universe Today.

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

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

It is morning. We don't record in the mornings.

You're catching me on my first cup of coffee with this recording.

I think you can absolutely tell that I am the morning person of this team.

Yes.

Because I'm bouncing off the walls. I've had a cup of coffee and I'm going a little crazy.

Do you remember the threat I gave you when we went on the cruise last year?

Don't wake me up in the morning. Don't let the kids wake me up.

It was any child that knocked on the door before 9 a.m. might be returned dismembered or at least tied up.

Throne overboard, yes. Yes.

It was everything I could do. Again, my kids are morning people too.

So we're all up at six.

So we're planning to go to Hawaii this year in January.

So hopefully that will be my native time zone and things will go better.

Very cool.

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