I'm sorry, I'm a cast episode 474, what's coming up in 2018?

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a 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 with me as always.

Dr. Pamela gave the Director of Technology and Citizen Science at the Astronomical Society

of Pacific and the Director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Good, we are recording this episode literally one day.

I'm using literally in the correct way.

One day since we recorded the last episode, but for those of you receiving it in your podcast

feeds, time has no meaning.

It's all relative.

So you're going to receive it a couple of days extra, but that's because you're going

somewhere next week.

I am.

I'm going to be at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, and the

meetings held in that city tend to be the absolute largest of all of the AAS meetings.

So this is going to be several thousand researchers, students, education specialists, all

the different careers that are needed to make professional astronomy a thing.

We're all going to be in one place, apparently freezing to death because Washington, DC.

So today is all about getting everything done ahead of travel tomorrow.

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