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Hi, everybody. My name is Fraser Kane. I am the publisher of University Day.

And once again, it's time for your weekly space hangout for March 8, 2012.

This week, we've got a ton of asteroid news coming from Emily Lackawalla and Phil Plate.

We've got information on the next generation suborbital research conference.

Information on this solar storms that have been buffering the earth in the last couple of days.

And amateur astronomers flashing the International Space Station.

And we've got a special guest this week as well.

So let's all introduce everybody.

So our special guest, I'll start with a special guest, is Ryan Cobrak.

He's a postdoc at MIT and he's the executive director of Yuri's Night.

And for those of you who don't know, Yuri's Night is going to be coming up very soon.

So we'll be talking with Ryan about Yuri's Night, the history and how you can get involved,

which is a big part to celebrate space exploration.

So, hey, Ryan, welcome.

Hi, thanks.

And so we've also got, of course, we've got Alan Boyle from MSNBC's Cosmic Log.

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