Astronomycast Special Episode recorded on February 9, 2018.

I am Dr. Pamela Gay and I am coming to you on a different microphone than normal.

Please let us know how you like this and I am coming from a different place than normal.

All phrasers off gallivanting through Iceland, I'm at work.

So I am recording from the offices of the Astronomical Society, the Pacific here in Southern Illinois

in historic downtown area.

I am diagonally across the street from where Abraham Lincoln gave a speech.

And today's episode, while phrasers off, all I'm going to be doing is answering your questions.

This is an unnumbered episode.

This is bonus free content.

And I hope you enjoy this experiment.

If you do, it may become a more regular thing.

So for those of you who are in the chat, we are trying nightbot.

So go ahead and experiment.

Those of you who are listening to the podcast, we record Astronomical Most Fridays at 2pm

Central, which is 3pm Boston, noon Vancouver.

And if you're a math at all out, that's 8pm London.

And we invite you to come and join us in these live recordings, interact with us through

the chat.

And this is where all the questions come from.

And I have all your questions in front of me.

So I'm going to start with one that was put in by the weekly space hangout crew.

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