AaS! Transient Special: When is the next eclipse?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
4.8 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It’s a special “transient” episode featuring the questions of Finn and Zakk from Dr. Batchelder’s class in Corbridge, England. They are celebrating a partial solar eclipse and asked: Where will the eclipse be total? When we will see another eclipse? Have you ever seen an eclipse?
Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman, Twitter@PaulMattSutter, http://www.Facebook.com/PaulMattSutter, and http://www.askaspaceman.com for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Spaceman. I'm Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. |
| 0:18.8 | You know how this show works, but I'm going |
| 0:20.9 | to tell you anyway. You go online to Twitter or Facebook, use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman |
| 0:26.5 | and fire away. Ask some questions. You can also ask on YouTube comments or email, |
| 0:32.9 | Ask a Spaceman at gmail.com or go to the ever faithful ask a spaceman.com. |
| 0:39.1 | You can also find a place to comment there if you're the commenting type. |
| 0:43.3 | We have a simple goal with this show. |
| 0:46.2 | Complete knowledge of time and space. |
| 0:49.7 | It's going to take a while, but we're going to get there one step at a time. |
| 0:52.9 | And today we have a tiny step. You'll notice this show is a little bit out of order. It's going to take a while, but we're going to get there one step at a time. And today we have a tiny step. |
| 0:55.5 | You'll notice this show is a little bit out of order. |
| 0:57.9 | It's not the regular schedule. |
| 1:00.1 | This is what I'm calling a transient episode. |
| 1:03.6 | Transients is a pretty cool word. |
| 1:05.2 | It means something that's very brief. |
| 1:07.2 | This is used in the radio astronomy world a lot. |
| 1:10.9 | It's a kind of signal that's just like a bleep or a bloop that shows up in your data and you don't know exactly where it came from. |
| 1:19.3 | In fact, it's a major area of research nowadays in radio astronomy. |
| 1:24.0 | I should do a whole show someday about transient. |
| 1:26.7 | So not a transient episode about transients, |
| 1:28.8 | but a full, long, regular standard, Ask a Space Man about transients because it's pretty cool. |
| 1:35.7 | This is a transient episode, which means I've collected some bleeps and a couple bloops for your |
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