Atsarami cast, episode 599 Zdai Khalite. Welcome to Astronomy Cast for Weekly Facts

Based Journey to the Cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know but

how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University Day with me as always,

Dr. Pamela Gay, senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of

Cosmical Questions. Hey Pam, how you doing? I'm doing well, I have a new microphone. It

is identical to the old microphone. The microphone is dead, long live the identical microphone.

Right. This is the new something, same as the old something. What's happening? 599, we

are one episode away from a completely irrelevant number, 600. It's still kind of cool to know.

We've been ticking along here. What's really starting to get to me is the number of people

who are like, yeah, I started listening to you when I had my kid and they're now a teenager.

Yeah, now they're a senior citizen, yeah. Yeah, we've had a couple of those emails

where someone's like, I started listening to you when I was a teenager and I just got

my doctorates. Yes, or people coming up to us at conferences, this happened in Hawaii.

I started listening to you in high school. I'm now a postdoc. Now a postdoc, yep, exactly.

No, I don't feel old, but thank you for bringing that up.

But it is a good excuse to, especially now that we've had this year's WAS meeting and

LPSC meeting to basically say, these are the things we're now looking forward to. So,

that's next week.

But you know what? I'm just going to say that you, I hope, seeing us do this 599 times,

have some sense that there's a stability going on that Pamela and I are in this for the

long haul that we're going to keep bringing you space and astronomy goodness for, I think

as long as we live, you should join our Patreon. You know, yeah, we're here and tell our voices

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