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Astronomycast episode 416. Fireballs from Space.

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 CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

I'm doing great. So I just got back from New Mexico. I got a chance to speak at the Bandelier National Monument, which is just outside of Santa Fe.

I was unbelievable, it was so awesome, a big thanks to the folks at Bandelier for having me.

Unfortunately we had terrible weather, there was a lightning storm and the rangers had these portable lightning detectors.

And they were like, oh, that one's six miles away, oh, that one's three miles away, okay everybody we got to move inside.

And they had these beautiful telescopes set up and they got rained on and so we couldn't have had worse weather, but I had a wonderful time visiting and we had a sort of a cool show.

I gave a cool show for a small group of people anyway and it was a lot of fun.

So let's get on with the show.

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