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Astronomy Cast, episode 336, units of measure.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our 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 Universe today.

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

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Good. Now you have been traveling. You've got more traveling coming in the future.

Unclear at this point, I was at Pensacon last week.

I contracted the creepy crawly flu. I'm going to go to the doctor before I decide about giving on an airplane again.

Right.

Because I value my eardrums.

Right. Now let's give a quick shout out to the upcoming CosmoQuest Hangoutathon.

Yes. On April 26, 27, we are going to do 36 straight hours of astronomy goodness.

We have a whole bunch of different things planned. We're still working getting the confirmations in from everybody.

So bear with us before we start announcing the schedule.

But we wanted to let you know this is coming.

And you can watch us all slowly lose our minds in the name of science on April 26, 27.

It is always hilarious.

Good. Well, I'm looking forward to it. I'm in.

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