502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely

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🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely Astronomy Cast 502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

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0:00.0	Astronomycast Episode 5-02
0:09.4	How do we know what something is made of if we can't touch it?
0:13.2	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the Cosmos where we help
0:17.2	you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:20.6	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today.
0:22.9	With me is Dr. Pamela Gay, the director of Technology and Citizen Science at the Astronomical
0:27.6	Society of the Pacific and the Director of Cosmic West.
0:31.4	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:32.4	I'm doing well.
0:33.4	How are you doing Fraser?
0:34.4	I'm doing great.
0:35.4	I'm in Texas, attending my daughter-in-law's wedding, hoping for good weather tomorrow.
0:41.0	Before we get into this week's show, I wanted to make a quick mention about a conference
0:45.6	that's coming up that people might dig.
0:47.7	It's called ThinkerCon.
0:49.1	It's going to be in Huntsfield.
0:50.1	It's organized by Destin Sandland from Smarter Every Day.
0:53.4	There's going to be a bunch of people there.
0:56.0	And it's pretty cool.
0:57.0	It's like a dinner where they're going to be having dinner underneath a Saturn V rocket
1:02.4	in the Rocket and Space Museum in Huntsfield.
1:05.9	Yeah, Space and Rocket Center.
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