133 Candy Melt

Chris and Rob are joined by Lovely Scottish Grant and Becky
Smethurst for an expanded-panel Recycled Electrons. We discuss
Mars One, Mars’s mysterious plumes, and astronomers on Twitter.
Also: Super Mario.


Links:


A near miss:
http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/scholz-star/

Cube sat mission ideas:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/0217-planetary-cubesats-begin-to-come-of-age.html

Scientists slow the speed of light:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30944584

Mystery Mars haze ‘baffles’ scientists:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31491805

Mars/Moon/Venus Conjunction on Feb 20th:
http://www.universetoday.com/118906/catch-a-conjunction-triple-play-on-february-20th-as-the-moon-meets-venus-mars/

Rosetta is taking really close-up shots now:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/16/rosetta_closeup_photos_from_a_low_pass_over_the_surface.html

We don’t know what hit Chelyabinsk:
http://www.psi.edu/news/papervishnu

Astronomers on Twitter:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106086

Wikipedia sonification: http://listen.hatnote.com/



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Audio content Copyright 2011-2015 Chris Lintott and Robert
Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space.
Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).