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Astronomycast, episode 377, Thompson finds the electron.

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 Cosmic Quest.

Who am I done?

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

Good, happy Victoria Day.

Happy Victoria Day to you.

You don't even know what that is, but that's fine, it's a Canadian thing.

All the Canadians will be nodding sagelly and they'll go for the first time, they'll realize that I'm not an American, but actually a Canadian.

Hey, my husband's Canadian, and now I know I need to go tell him happy Canadian.

I feel guilty that I did no earlier today.

Yeah, exactly.

Have we got anything to that? Can people still donate for the hangout of fun?

Yes, they can. I have not yet taken the page down, and so if you want to add your glorious donations to our yearly massive pay,

we'd greatly appreciate it.

It's CosmicQuest.org, slash hangout of fun.

Yeah, and we really appreciate your support.

It was a great, very successful hangout of fun this year, but we definitely need to raise a little more, to kind of just smooth out the rough patches as all of those grants.

Yeah, donations are pretty much all we have to get us through until October, because we're in an unfunded extension because sequestration.

Okay, so let's get rolling with the show.

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