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Astronomy Cast Episode 313 from Monday, July 1, 2013.

Procession. Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where 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 university 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?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, and where are you?

I am in Lisbon, Portugal.

And when do you leave there?

I am here until the weekend, and then I go to Athens, Greece, and then to Volos, Greece.

And I finally go back to the United States on August 7th.

So this is an epic 35 day trip of collaboration, communication, and science education.

Go space.

Go space.

But if people want to hang out with you, where's the next big opportunity?

Dragoncon?

Oh, Dragoncon in the United States, and if anyone wants to see me in Volos, Greece, we're going to be doing a bunch of different events,

just drop me a note over on Google+.

And we can set up a time.

We're doing a giant science cafe that once I understand all of the logistics I will post about,

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