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Astronomycast, episode 244 from Monday, December 19, 2011.

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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, Evertsville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Good, and again, we are recording well into the future.

It's early December, but we're recording this for late December because you're going to be cruising somewhere.

Yeah, something like that.

I'm going to be off exploring the planet.

You're going to have a holiday, sounds good.

But once again, we are recording this as a Google plus hangout, and so if you want to participate, all you have to do is circle either me or Pamela, and then we will give an announcement when we're going to do a recording, and then you can just jump into the hangout, and we stick around for half an hour or an hour after the recording, and answer questions, and it's a really good time.

So I highly recommend it, just circle one of us.

And this is kind of cool because we're recording at a really weird time, and so it's an opportunity for our Australian listeners to join us on this one.

And it just occurred to me, we're recording this a year before we are going to be on a cruise together celebrating the world not ending.

That's right.

We're at the end of the world.

Okay, we'll be together.

We're pretty certain it's not going to end.

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