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161010 KZSB SBAU radio show quick notes...see attached file to play back cropped show
00:00.000  B-"brains are arriving" JerryW in
00:20.821  Vandenberg fire, TT-reminds me of my smoking days
00:30.392  Traffic, bicycles, AU guys here, Tony agog at AU meeting Prof Blaes
02:04.086  B-Prof UCSB come on show? JW-they are busy, ideas at 4am; ChuckMcP did good.
03:02.184  B-Stephen Hawking Santa Barbara?
04:36.843  stand by
04:50.864  Omer Blaes, novas
06:04.367  1.  B-intros, AU vs. Local Group, Andromeda galaxy approaching, TT-Vera Rubin, dark matter, JW-our solar system may be thrown out of new galaxy; our Sun 1 Billion years will be red drawf; Prof Blaes talk on pulsating novas, accretion disk heats up; Sun gas vs. plasma?  B-Q to Blaes, how we get higher elements, TW-some data was given by a kid in AVS, American Variable Star group, TomW had to check if he had data from his past as well on SS Cygni; some data from 1880, cycle of 120 days,  CM-V404 Cygni black hole flickering
18:11.254  2.  Beatles, Across the Universe, star classification, dimming tracking, light curves; CM-I do short blibs of asteroids occulting stars; TT-Prof. Blaes said our Sun varies?  TW-5 minutes; CM-solar cycle, sunspots lower temperature.  B-blasts? CM-CME's  B-cycle CM-22 years magnetic B-star sizes? CM-Sun in middle B-blow up? ours? TW-above 1.4 solar masses get novas.  CM-above 8-12 neutron star, above 12 solar mass, get black hole.  TT-why did not SS Cygni go to 1.4 solar mass and go Type 1A supernova?  JW-temp reaches fusion before 1.4 and cools again.  CM-Globular Clusters have blue stragglers, B-how close are stars in GC's? CM-light days apart.  B-proof of stars going around each other? CM-Yes multiple star systems,  JW-stars can separate in telescopes over time.  CM-Herschel measured  B-Alpha Centauri?  CM-three stars, Proxima orbits other two. B-never collide? B-send nano satellites? TW-61 Cygni, Piazzi's flying star, discovered early 1800's, CM-see it move against background stars.  B-stars occult?  CM-Algol, eye of Medusa, eclipsing binary, fast orbit.  JW-dust disks w binary star change greatly.  B-have we found a rogue planet?  CM-brown drawfs.  Fuzzy definition, about 13 Jupiter size, has heat, but not fusion anymore.  JW-Jupiter does have heat.  B-2010 movie? JW-obilisks added mass to turn on as a star.  Arthur C Clarke
28:43.103  3.  B-5 members here, sometimes BruceM, see all 180 members?  CM-some members far away.  B-contest on music?  T-just use YouTube and Astronomy.  Saturday? T-plan meet and Star Party.  B-Tony impressed with planetarium show.  T-Telescope Tuesday, Westmont Saturday, T-Oct 16 talk by LCO, Robert Krishner, Dark Energy. CM-great speaker, Jay Leno like, in 1998 he spoke to SBAU and hinted at Dark Energy findings.  CM-DE space expands, but has same pressure.  JW-property of space.  B-vs. Regular energy/matter? JW-unfortunate naming, just see effects.  B-Dark matter has mass, Dark energy spreading us? JW-if no Dark Energy, universe would collapse CM-gnabgib = Big Bang backwards.  B-Omer Blaes will come up with theory CM-unified theory JW-theory of everything.  B-preists should get into this...CM-they do not deal in facts.  JW-for good discussions you need beer.
36:36.277  4.  AU hour, dinner for members coming up, TT-campout for members coming up end of October. JW-CalStar, 80 campsites and telescopes, near Lake San Antonio.  JW-taking pictures thru scope, but M33 galaxy naked eye visible. CM-naked eye limited magnitude. B-Prof Blaes, supernova more light than whole galaxy?  CM-three weeks.  B-nebulas? JW-star guts. B-elements? JW-supernova, 118 elements TW-ferris wheel is iron.  CM-higher elements made at supernova iron taking more neutrons.  B-layers in stars?  CM-Sun has one layer.  JW-higher elements made, then degrade to lighter elements.  B-Lithium?
TW-3rd, B-4, Be-5 JW-satellites made from Beryllium, toxic when machined to BeO, gets in lungs.  B-Radon?  JW-is radioactive and bad for lungs.  B-Blaes electrons throw out x-rays?  0-186,000mi/sec in no time.  JW-"when they stop on a dime, the dime gets real hot" TW-x-rays assoc w/ inner shell electrons.  B-electrons neg? JW-photons neutral. B-Lysol alpha blobs?
45:44.171  5.  B-SBAU.org website for more info.  B-Google Astronomy, Europa skipping...TT-darn, want to see if fish are there, B-water shooting off Europa, "colder than polar bear snot", B-deep ocean? CM-20km ice, then water, then core.  B-why water blast off?  CM-temp/psi.  B-how to land on ice? T-very carefully.  JW-JIMO program was going to Europa w/ nuke reactor to melt thru ice and trail wire behind to send signal. Then Prometheus mission, Now Juno mission.  CM-pathogens survived
B-how to join AU? TT-sbau.org.  Maker's Faire at Marymount school coming up.  B-I'm the only signal one here, TT-but also cats.
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