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Astronomycast episode 413, Navigating Near.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly, fact-space journey through the cosmos. We help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Keen, I'm the publisher of the University of University of New York. With me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well, a bit more than Sleepy. We just finished a two-day all-hands meeting for CosmoQuest, where we brought in all the new people for our funding, and then got home to a sick dog.

So it's like, I've gone three days without enough sleep, actually much longer than that. So this is going to be the Sleepy Pamela episode, so please be kind.

Oh, I won't. I just got back from... No, yeah, no. The tough question's got to come. It's got to happen. I have no sympathy, no mercy.

But yeah, I just got back from a week-long trip in Banff, Jasper. If you've never been to that part of the world, I highly recommend it. It's just so great. It's unbelievable. What a beautiful, beautiful place.

Man, I like road trips. So today's episode of Astronomy Cast is brought to you by me. Well, it's actually brought to you by Universe Today, which you're probably aware is the website that I run.

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