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Cosmically creepy chords
Send your name to the asteroid belt!
Monster of the Milky Way
Hubble mission to be announced Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern
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Cosmically creepy chords
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When I was a kid it was popular for people to
have records playing (yes, LPs) of weird sounds
out their windows. Screams, moans, creaky doors,
all those cheesy sounds. One house had whale
songs playing, which I thought was cool and not at all scary.
I was thinking about this today, and suddenly
remembered a post I put up last July about
extremely creepy sounds from Saturn and the
Earths aurora. Wanna scare the kiddies on
Halloween? Download those and loop em. Youll
probably scare them enough to have lots of leftover candy.
Heres the link to the Earth sounds, and here are
the very creepy Saturn sounds.
Oh, and the picture above? Thats just a little
Halloween gift from the Chandra space observatory.
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Send your name to the asteroid belt!
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This has been done before on other missions, but
its still cute: NASA is putting a microchip
onboard the Dawn spacecraft which will contain
the names of thousands of people. You can have
your name on it too: just sign up for it!
Dawn is a mission to study the big asteroids
Ceres and Vesta, and its had a checkered past.
Im really glad to see everything going well for
it now! 170,000 people have signed up to have
their names sent to main asteroid belt. Will yours be among them?
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Monster of the Milky Way
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I suspect tomorrow will be a big news day what
with the Hubble announcement and all, so Ill
take the time now to let yall know that Tuesday
(Halloween) night at 8:00 p.m. local time, PBS
will air a NOVA program called "Monster of the
Milky Way". Its about the search for
supermassive black holes in other galaxies and at the center of our own.
I have not seen the show, but Ive seen clips
the show was sponsored in part by the Gamma ray
Large Area Space Telescope mission, and my group
at Sonoma State University works on the education
and public outreach arm of the mission. I wasnt
terribly involved with the NOVA show, but I did
edit the script a wee bit, and it looks like
itll be very cool, with amazing graphics, and
good stuff from scientists involved with
searching for black holes (including an old
friend I went to grad school hi Brian!). Its a
sort-of companion piece to the planetarium show
we (the GLAST mission) helped develop as well,
though both shows of course stand alone.
Too bad its on right when Ill be expecting
trick-or-treaters! Hopefully by 8:00 things will
haha die down a bit, and I can watch the
show. Its broadcast in high-definition, which
will be awesome, and will eventually be available
for free download (in much lower res, of course) from the PBS website.
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Hubble mission to be announced Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern
NASA has issued a press release saying that a
decision on whether or not they will service
Hubble Space Telescope will be announced Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.
I read the release with some laughter, because
right after that statement, they said this:
If the decision is made to go ahead with a
servicing mission, NASA will hold several other
media events on Tuesday, Oct. 31 (all times
Eastern):
2:30 p.m. News conference with the astronauts who
would carry out the mission from Johnson;
broadcast live on NASA TV. Questions from
reporters will be taken from Goddard, Kennedy and NASA Headquarters.
3:30 to 5 p.m. Media interview opportunities on
NASA TV. Hubble Space Telescope experts will be
available for satellite interviews. The specific experts are TBD.
5 to 7 p.m. Astronaut media interview
opportunities on NASA TV. Certain servicing crew
members will be available for satellite
interviews. The specific astronauts are TBD.
Media interested in the astronaut satellite
interviews must contact the Johnson Newsroom at
XXX-XXX-XXXX [number deleted] by 6 p.m. EST Oct.
30. The astronaut satellite interviews will be
carried live on the NASA TV analog satellite
AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude; transponder
5C, 3800 MHz, vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8 MHz.
To schedule a satellite interview with a Hubble
Space Telescope expert, media must contact Ed
Campion at Goddard at XXX-XXX-XXXX by 5 p.m. EST Oct. 30.
Now, if I were NASA and if I were, a lot of the
past, oh, 30 years of space travel would look a
whole lot different right now and I were saying
"We may or may not go back up to fix Hubble", I
wouldnt immediately follow up that statement
with 10 times as many words on how the press can
find out more about the astronauts, scientists,
and engineers and how to schedule interviews with them.
But thats just me.
Wait, no its not. Emily noticed it too.
I have no qualms at all saying that Im sure this
is already a done deal. I said that on Coast to
Coast AM last week, and Im sayin it again now.
NASA will go ahead with the mission. Theyve made
some bad decisions in the past, and theyll make
more in the future, but this is one I think they wont screw up.
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