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Astronomy Cast Episode 226 from Monday, March 28, 2011. Weather.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where you 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 Universe Today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay at Professor at Southern Illinois University Everett's Film.

At Pamela, how you doing?

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

Doing great now. I know you wanted to pump up the store today.

Yes, it's actually t-shirt season, even in like the places where it refuses to ever stop snowing.

It's starting to be t-shirt and giant mosquito season.

And while Astronomy Cast t-shirts will not protect you against mosquitoes, you will at least look really good and nerdy while you're getting eaten by the bugs.

I've had lots of people stop and say, cool shirt. What's Astronomy Cast? And then I then have a new listener.

So, yeah, definitely, if you wear the shirt, you have the responsibility of promoting the show. Just so you're clear.

But you'll look cool.

But you'll look super cool and people love the shirt.

Yeah. So how could a person purchase these wonderful items?

Well, that's a wonderful question, Fraser. So all you have to do is go to Astrogear, Astrogear, Astrogear.com.

We'll get you there. And we have not just t-shirts, but we also have pins and CDs and posters.

And all the proceeds go to paying the happy people that make the show go that aren't Fraser and I who do this because we love you all.

Yeah, yeah, we don't get paid.

But we have Joria who helps keep everything up to date on the websites and Nancy Atkinson and a woman named Romeo who does the transcripts.

Preston. Preston, Preston, Preston is awesome and he's the reason you hear us right now.

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