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Astronomycast, episode 333, when worlds collide.

Welcome to Astronomycast, 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 K. I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, on the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Cold, though.

Oh.

Okay, defying cold.

Minus 12 Celsius. My pipes froze. My toilets don't work. It's cold for West Coast of Canada.

Okay, we're writing about the same temperature here.

Now, before we get on to the show today, there's a little bit of promotion going on for astronomy 365 days of astronomy.

You want to mention that?

Yes. So our 365 days of astronomy podcast, a winner of the particle...

Yes, unlike astronomycast.

Unlike astronomycast, yeah.

It's a community paid for podcast that relies on donations from people like you, but we just haven't been getting the donations we need this year.

It's like people forgot that donating made it go.

So our number of listeners is going up and up and up, and our donations are going down and down and down, and I love my staff.

I'd like to pay Aviva and Richard continually forever and always so that we can keep sending you science fiction stories, science stories, interviews, all of the wonderful, diverse content that we have to offer.

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