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180813 KZSB SBAU radio show poor notes, using VLC to record stream http://ice7.securenetsystems.net/KZSB , edit using Audacity.  Download the attached file and listen!

Baron Ron Herron, JerryW, ChuckMcP, RubenG by phone

00:00.000  B-heck of a deal, $10, half full a/c SB Airbus, leave Museum of Natural History by 8am, Science Museum, has Endeavor, King Tut is extra,
01:26.841  TomT not coming in
02:02.805  bus trip and sept astrovangza
03:42.218  JW, Donny, CM
06:13.678  Parker solar probe
06:43.502  KZSB
07:32.331  earth sky advert
08:10.050  what to talk about, 8sec, solar probe

08:38.997  music: Gato Europa.  B-after viewing meteors all night. CM, outreach; JW-back from class reunion, Pat seemed most popular of 600 people in class, 200 showed up.  B-spouses loneliest people in world at reunion.  JW-people were very friendly, did not break up in clics.  Van Horn HS, Independence Mo. CM-Pat San Marcos grad.  jw-august dog days, sun in canis major CM-Sirius. doldrums.  brh-sept 7, 8  1st Fri meet, Astrovangza at Museum, solar scopes, plan meet, star party. Sept 10 radio show. CM-solar cycle CM-but quiet phase, 11 or 22 yr cycle.  brh-Parker (91yr old physicist) solar probe, what for?  CM-corona, why 1.5MKelvin, what is energy transport, maybe micro flares, magnetic reconnections? corona is not dense.  B-trajetory, gravity assist? CM-downhill B-elliptical like jupiter juno.  B-carbon used CM-peak around shield JW-hide behind the shield and side away from Sun is cold to dump heat.  CM-Sun is 880,000miles in dia. B-Mercury hot B-hard to get signal back, sun noise on signal? CM-directed beam back. B-how long in space?  B-postponed, but up next day.  Webb is postponed years.  Earth shadow on Webb?  CM-not likely, in Lagrangian point.  B-nice blankets geing sold. music: Gato Europa.  JW-seats avail?  CM-30, M&J might get 3 more.  music: Gato- Europa.

18:47.466  music: Galileo used his telescope for the very first time.  RubenG-called B-interview Q's to Ruben about Calif Sci Center trip.   CM-looked at meteors of Perseid shower last night, seem to originate from Perseus constellation.  JW-comet orbit Sun and leave dust behind the Earth runs into.  Leonids from Leo.  Halley's comet leaves trail the Orionids. B-what size reaches the earth surface? JW-Chelybinisk CM-60ft across.  B-how to take photo of meteors?  B-some people can hear sizzling?   B-where were you looking at meteors?  CM-end of west camino  Music: strong embrace of a black hole (Kazoo playing).

32:11.253  music: star trek, faith of the heart.  B-TT will do planetarium, like CM.  B-love to see Huygens probe landing, Cassini mission.  hits Titan atmosphere CM-heat shield.  B-Europa is another one, more water there.  B-Huygens took time to float down w/ parachute.  JW-pics taken in diff directions  Cm-rocks looked like they had been eroded by water.  B-Juno will crash into Jupiter, like Cassini into Saturn?  JW-Juno trying to get under clumps of radiation in Jupiter mag belts.  B-four forces: Strong nuclear JW-binds quarks to form protons, Weak nuclear JW-holds nucleus of atom together, electromagnetism, and gravity.  B-my brain in mid of night, why 0-186Kmps instantly photons?  B-photons do not need to be pushed?  CM-self pushed, generated    B-will next speaker talking about quantum physics be appreciated. 
CM-bartender says we do not serve your type around here, then a tachyon walks into the bar.  music: Gato: Europa

42:10.657  music: it was a calm and cloudless night, summertime 1609..  B-galileo looked at meteors? CM-if summertime, must be looking at Perseids. JW-i use chaise lounge.  JW-LaGrange points.  Webb telescope.  several pts around the earth 5pts, Sun-Earth 1 & 2, ahead and behind, pts 3&4,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point  Hubble failures cannot be fixed by Shuttle missions anymore. 
B-what are deep fields?  JW-photos taken by space telescopes.  110 messier objects, depending on political views.
"B- visit Cal Sci Center, show up Museum by 8am $10.  music: Once I had enuf mass, I became a star of gas, firery blast.

49:54.684  music: Gato  B-Perseids?  CM-go on 2wks either side of peak.  3rd Fri at Westmont, Cachuma, 3rd Tues at Camino, Thurs 23, 30, sept 2 at Bacara.  Sept 1 wed carp.  Sept 7 meeting, Sept 8 Sat: Astrovangza, star party...etc.  B-$20 for two tomorrow trip.  how to become a member?  CM-www.sbau.org  B-Prof Wm Van Damme next meeting, two places at once?  CM-superposition.
54:22.223 end