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That's Tronami Cast, episode 473, remembering the best space science of 2017. Welcome to

Astronomy Cast, 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 Cain, I'm the publisher

of University Day with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, the Director of Technology and Citizen Science

at the Astronomical Society in Pacific and the Director of Cosmic Quest. Hey Pamela, you

done?

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

Good happy new year. Happy new years to you. We are between the American Geophysical Union

Conference and the American Astronomical Society Conference in this weird in-between time of

year where all of us are focused on trying to catch up on our inboxes. How are you doing?

Fine.

I'm all caught up on my inboxes. It was nasty. I got to say, I hit the ground running Monday

this week, Tuesday this week, because that was in the year, Tuesday, and tried to catch

up everything as best I could. It's, I definitely just finished digging myself out from the pile.

And Monday is when the yearly fire hose of press releases will begin with the AAS meeting

which I will actually be at and reporting information out from. So everyone that's day

tuned for information from that. And then in February, I'm actually going to go to a computer

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