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Astronomycast, episode 372, the Millican Oil Drop Experiment.

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 Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmicquest. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

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

I am doing awesome.

Yeah, I can't complain. I can't complain about the terrible, horrible rainy weather that's just never seems to end.

You would?

But at least as a Canadian, I know I'm one of the lucky ones.

I was going to say, you're kind of on the west coast in tropical, what isn't mid-latitude tropics?

Yes, exactly.

It's pineapple express all the way here.

So let's just remind people that there's going to be a live event where we get to watch Pamela, try to help raise money for research.

Yes, so on April 25, 26, we are going to be holding this year's Cosmicquest Hangoutathon.

You can find out everything you want to know by going to Cosmicquest.org, slash Hangoutathon, all one word.

And we're still in the process of pulling things together, but what I can tell you right now is we are partnered with astronomers without borders.

And we'll be bringing you star parties around the world as the night passes from nation to nation.

We're also going to have scientists coming on to help us understand the entire process of asteroid and meteorite understanding, folks talking about the moon, Mars.

And we're going to be actually racing to map out other worlds with data visualizations to see you as you compete to get Vesta, Mercury, the moon, and we'll have Mars for the Hangoutathon all mapped out in real time.

And so it's all about science and hopefully funding science.

The only reason I am here is because folks like you have donated Cosmicquest needs your help.

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