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Astronomycast, episode 287 from Monday, December 31, 2012, E equals MC squared.

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 Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

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

Good, and we're back from our awesome crews in the Caribbean with about 90 of our Astronomycast friends.

And that was super fun!

Yes, and we are going to be repeating this.

Look forward for news about Hawaii in January 2014.

I'm working on putting together a website for that.

All the photos from this year will go up and information on next year will follow.

Yeah, it was a really wonderful experience.

I got to say, I'm a big thanks to the folks who did the end of the world crews for inviting us on board and letting us participate.

We had a great time, both with being able to sort of see the ruins and do the excursions, but also just to be able to spend time with them.

It was great. You put together a really busy schedule where we were recording shows almost every night.

We were doing events every night, meet and greet party, doing shows.

We did stargazing every night out on the back of the boat.

We did lunches and dinners with the fans.

We were able to get a chance to actually hang out with almost everybody who came and have sort of personal dinner and lunch with them.

It was great. It was great to get to know everybody and great to have course to hang out with you.

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