127 Getting Vesta Out The Door

Rob and Chris talk about the latest Philae/Rosetta news, new
plans for missions into the Solar System, and men in hats.


Links:




Higgs Hunters: http://www.higgshunters.org




Lots of cool ideas for missions on the Planetary Society
blog:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/20141125-a-potpourri-of-future-mission.html




Sonification (Rosetta/Philae) :
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/20/the-sound-of-touchdown/




Philae to come back to life in March?
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-11/27/rosetta-philae-reddit-ama




Spotify reveals that we all listened to Aerosmith after the
Philae landing
https://insights.spotify.com/br/2014/11/21/aerosmith-rosetta-comet/




ThinkGeek’s solar system shot glasses:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/2033/?CJID=%zi&istCompanyId=007b6f44-e03c-4536-8b29-58e160067143&istItemId=iaxqlaxwi&istBid=t&cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=




Asteroid diamonds are weird :
https://asunews.asu.edu/20141120-lonsdaleite




Map of bolide distribution :
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4380




Vesta mapping complete :
https://asunews.asu.edu/20141117-vesta-map




Serial: http://serialpodcast.org
SEN: Sen.com




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Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 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/).