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Astronomycast, episode 232 from Monday, September 26, 2011.

Galileo Spacecraft.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our 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 Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Everett'sville.

Hi Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, well so this is our first show after we got back from Dragon Con and after our summer hiatus.

So all of you are going to notice a great big gap from May till September, and that's because we took the summer off and took a break.

But that's not actually true, I'm actually sort of retconning our history and the reality is that we actually fell behind over the course of the entire year because of both of our busy schedule and Pamela's crazy travel schedule.

So we would sort of catch up and try and get some episodes done after the fact and backdate them so that nobody missed an episode and at some point we kind of surrendered and gave up and sort of cut it off and then brought it back now.

And so we've actually got a bunch of things we're going to put into the feed.

There's this show which is sort of the official astronomy cast show and then we've also got several several episodes that we did at Dragon Con.

We did a live show, we did a kids show and we did a sort of ad hoc show that we sort of became an impromptu astronomy cast episode about about weird things in the universe, mostly in the solar system.

So you'll see those in the feed when you see them.

And we learned I'm not as smart as a second grader.

It was very very, I don't know what snowball earth is.

I don't know clue what snow berth is.

You got stump day, I do a little more research on snowball earth, that would be great.

But that was the that was the whole play.

So the other thing that's really interesting is that we have been recording episodes of astronomy cast as Google hangouts.

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