123 Sexy Ice Moon

Rob and Chris talk about Uranus, moons, and nuclear fusion. May
be there’s dark matter, maybe there’s not - and what angle should
canned whipped cream be sprayed at?


Links:


Ice on Mercury :
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=266

Bruno Merin’s lovely multi-wavelength gallery
http://brunomerin.com/slider/menu.html



Optimal angle for spraying whipped cream:
http://laughingsquid.com/a-father-and-his-two-kids-conduct-an-experiment-to-find-the-optimal-angle-for-spraying-whipped-cream/

Lockheed announce fusion ‘breakthrough’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/16/experts_skeptical_over_lockheed_martins_claims_to_have_cracked_fusion/

UK Space Weather centre opening in Exeter:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/09/uk-space-weather-forecasting-centre

Mimas : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4342

Have we found dark matter? :
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2014/october/inexplicable-signal-from-the-unseen-universe-provides-tantalising-clue-about-one-of-astronomys-greatest-secrets-2013-dark-matter

Hubble finds KBOs :
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/nasa-s-hubble-telescope-finds-potential-kuiper-belt-targets-for-new-horizons/



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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/).