A Cosmic Odyssey: Decades of Discovery at the Palomar Observatory
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Astronomer Linda Schweizer spent countless hours interviewing the explorers who revolutionized astronomy through observations made at California’s Palomar Observatory. She tells their fascinating stories and shares their science in her new book Cosmic Odyssey: How Intrepid Astronomers at Palomar Observatory Changed our View of the Universe. Attention space poets! You might win a Planetfest ’21 t-shirt as Mat and Bruce invite your best efforts in the new What’s Up contest. Hey, it could be verse! There’s more to discover, including a link to Planetfest ’21, at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0203-2021-linda-schweizer-cosmic-odyssey
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| 0:00.0 | The Cosmic Odyssey of Discovery at Palomar Observatory, this week on Planetary Radio. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across |
| 0:16.1 | our solar system and beyond. Cosmic Odyssey, how intrepid astronomers at Palomar Observatory |
| 0:23.2 | changed our view of the universe. That's the new book by Astronomer Linda Schweitzer. |
| 0:28.9 | It documents how George Ellery Hale's crowning achievement, including the 200-inch Hale |
| 0:34.7 | Telescope, changed our view of everything from our own solar system to the outer reaches |
| 0:40.2 | of the cosmos. Linda joins me today for a fascinating conversation. |
| 0:45.8 | Get your quills out, Bruce Betts wants your poems about spacecraft at or arriving at Mars. |
| 0:52.9 | Five of you will get the new PlanetFest21 t-shirt for your troubles. |
| 0:58.5 | PlanetFest is almost upon us. Our virtual celebration of the Perseverance Rover, the United Arab |
| 1:04.1 | Emirates Hope Orbiter, and China's Chan-Wen-1 begins on Saturday, February 13. Details are at |
| 1:11.5 | planetary.org slash, PlanetFest21. |
| 1:16.0 | Readers of the downlink are free weekly newsletter, know that the red planet isn't having all |
| 1:21.0 | the fun in the neighborhood. We learned last week that NASA's Osiris Rex probe will |
| 1:25.6 | leave Bennu for Earth on May 10. That will give the spacecraft one more flyby of the asteroid. |
| 1:32.5 | Astronauts completed yet another spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Did you |
| 1:37.4 | know the ISS will soon be getting upgraded solar panels? The originals are starting to |
| 1:43.0 | show their age. We also learned that NASA's TES and the European Space |
| 1:48.0 | Agency's Chi-Ops spacecraft have discovered a distant solar system with five planets |
| 1:54.0 | locked in a dance that makes them a line now and then, which must be some kind of holiday |
| 2:00.4 | for anybody living there, wouldn't you think? You can find much more at planetary.org slash |
| 2:05.4 | downlink. Linda Schweitzer says she fell early and hard for the stars. That love affair would |
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