Weekly Space Hangout - July 12, 2012

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🗓️ 12 July 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we talk about the new moon discovered orbiting Pluto (P5), New Horizons doing science in it's sleep, a southern polar vortex on Titan, and Pluto moon orbits, et cetera. We are joined by Robert Nemiroff, Jason Major, Alan Boyle, Michael Wall, Amy Shira Teitel and special guest Mark Showalter of SETI. Hosted by Fraser Cain.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Fraser Cain and I am the publisher of University
0:03.2	and this is your weekly Spacey Hangout for July 12, 2012.
0:08.6	This week we've got a bunch of stories for you in my text thing.
0:13.1	We got, we're going to report on Pluto's new moon.
0:15.7	We're going to report on New Horizons doing science in its sleep.
0:20.0	The Southern polar vortex on Titan.
0:22.4	Whatever Alan wants to talk about.
0:24.9	He's going to talk about Pluto.
0:26.4	He also wants to talk about Pluto.
0:28.3	It's going to be very Pluto special and we have a very special guest.
0:31.2	This week we've got Mark Schoelter from the City Institute
0:34.1	and you're also involved in the Pluto discovery.
0:37.0	So this is going to be a big Pluto week.
0:40.7	This is great.
0:41.7	I hope Alan Stern is watching.
0:44.6	All right, cool.
0:45.3	So the big news of course is the Pluto.
0:48.7	Sorry, the people here in this Hangout, I apologize.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:53.4	Focus Fraser.
0:54.7	So we've got Alan Boyle from MSNBC's Cosmic Log.
0:57.9	We've got Amy Shirtitle from Vintage Space.
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