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Astronomy Cast, episode 250 from Monday, January 30, 2012.

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My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay at Professor at Southern Illinois University Everett's Film.

Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Doing very well, very cold, little sick, so people can hear it in my voice.

I'm a little lazily today, so I apologize.

It should be going away.

But now you had a couple of things that we wanted to talk about today.

One is you wanted people to remind people about the survey that we're running?

Right, so every couple of years we do a general listener survey to find out how we're impacting you, what you want to learn.

And exactly why you come and spend spare time listening to the two of us talk astronomy.

So if you can spend a few minutes answering some questions, spend a few minutes.

If you can spend a few minutes answering some survey questions for us.

The survey is at astrosphere.org slash surveys slash astronomy cast slash we're just going to put all the links up for you.

I'll be tweeting that in just a minute and it will be in our show notes for this episode.

Okay, cool. And then the other thing we want to remind everyone is now that it's 2012 and that the world is ending.

We're going to be on a cruise at the end of the year to celebrate the end of the world.

Not. So at the very moment that the minds predicted, I guess the minds ran out of calendar space.

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