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Astronomycast Episode 288 from Monday, January 7, 2013.

Faces of Matter.

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, Evertsville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Doing great. I know you're very cold, so hopefully this will be one of those shows that you don't slip into some kind of hypothermic state.

Yeah, and pass out in the middle of the show. Now, have you got any interesting things happening on CosmoQuest that we might want to mention?

We are beta testing mercury mappers. We are going live with a whole series of Google Hangouts that are related to astronomycast.

And I think pretty much all of us, and this includes you, are going to be at ScienceIO this year.

So, if you're going to be at ScienceIO, make sure to come by, say hi, and we might even have swag in our pocket to hand to you.

I'm going to be doing a talk on the virtual star parties at ScienceIO, so about 15 minutes.

Yeah, and I'm trying to try to get a live, going to get some astronomy happening live as well while we're doing it, so we'll see.

Yeah, it should be fun. Great. Now, one quick thing, if you're listening to the show and you really love it, if you could go to iTunes and write a review for us, that would be super fantastic.

Because the more reviews that helps pop us up to the top of the rankings and the listings, and then when people are looking for shows to listen to, they'll see ours and give it a shot.

And that really helps us out. So, if you have a few seconds and you've never reviewed astronomycast, that would help us a ton.

And that's over on iTunes. Just do a search for astronomycast on iTunes, and then there's a way to review.

And if you're not a member of iTunes, you don't like Apple, whatever, don't worry about it. We're not going to hold your feet to the fire.

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