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161226 KZSB radio show notes, audio attached

00:00.000 B, ChuckMcp, arrived, TomT arrival, Passenger movie, B-ask TomW what class start is like.  Ben Hayes, KZSB start.
04:48.096 Amos new years song;
11.39.055 Trail quest Big Caliente Hot Springs; earth/Sky ad
13:04.574 Frank Sinatra, Richard Dupree football score Miami of Ohio vs Mississippi State 3-0;  "mass driver" TT-sounds like a coil, RD-1977 definition: large EM catapult, CMcP, Heinlein story? B-use Wikipedia to see Rail Gun.  Ralph Roster Doster.
16:22.559 B

16:42.401 Holst-Jupiter B-sounds like a western; BruceM on phone,Organ society Pres; TT intro TomW, ChuckMcP; B-can handle more members? Fleischmann? TT-only 45 show normally; B-free membership if outreach; TT-KZSB is outreach; Westmont outreach was cold; B-start w/ ask TomW about Westmont class day one talk: TomW--lab, life sci majors, list experiments, computer driven experiments; Newton's law of cooling, Galileo gravity; honor students helping at Observatory.  B-hygrometer w/ hair; BM-organ dates;
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Holst-Mars B-Nat Geo Mars series on; half doc, then year 2033; BM-cox stupid little box; B-speaker on Novaes, supernovas, sun will not end like that; why does explosion occur, over gravitational collapse? TomW-core collapse, depends on mass CMcP-B asking why rebound and explosion.  CMcP: neutron star fr electrons fuse w/ proton, rigid ball, gigantic flood of neutrinos creates shockwave plus outer onion skin thermonuclear explosions.  B-fission vs. fusion TT-proton of H to He two protons+neutrons.  CMcP Degenercy pressure B-if star size of earth orbit, 8min for explosion?  CMcP neutrino detectors give pre-warning of explosion.  100 supernovas ea night.  Milky Way, 1/century, we are overdue. CM-Betelguese astro seismology can be seen.  Tenuous. JerryW said it gets hot.
39:27.239

Holst-Mars B-drama on Mars series, humans fighting, guest speaker, TT-Jan 6 Josh Garber, geology of exoplanets, CM-earth in context.  TT-we need people to call 564-1290.  B-this is a renaissance time, so many missions.  Juno, Cassini, TT-ISS CM-MRO; B-live NASA.  B-BruceM? BM-so many, pictures on wall of various Shuttle missions, over 100.  Cal Sci Center.  B-lost shuttles, Columbia, CM-predicted # of losses.  B-Nat Geo series shows people in confinement, only 2 of 12 come out OK.  B-Vandenberg has unmanned shuttle.  Kelly brothers, talk in town, hard on body coming back to earth. BM-Lu talk.  BM-astronauts over 6months, eyes get flat.  BM-my telescope focus seems to match people even if they take glasses off.  CM-accomodation.  B-Saturn CM-close to sun, 29 yr orbit.  B-farther planet from sun, the slower it goes.  Jupiter spins once per 10 hours.
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Holst-? CM-Star Cluster in 1950's, Joe Danley call w/ Q: full moon rainbow ring, what causes that? ice crystals?  TT-22 degree ring, CM- Atoptics.uk webpage pictures of various effects. B-see circle if in a plane. TomW-ice crystals are hexangonal.  B-solar eclipse next year? TomW-August 21, no telescope, just binoculars for trip.  Annular eclipse vs. total.  TomW-Sundogs prismatic refraction hexangonal on either side of Sun 60 degrees.  B-spectrometer? RGYB.  BM took pic of ring around moon.
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Holst-Mercury B-AU society, will explain it if something seen; solar eclipse? TT-Oregon across US to Carolinas. TomW-east of Cascades.  CMcP-Sheridan, Wyoming, just use eyeball.  TomW-Venus is pretty right now.  B-window to launch to Mars? two weeks, no gravitational assist needed.  Juno & Cassini missions did use that.  CM-RTG power, crash to Saturn in 2017.  Voyagers, New Horizons, record attached, Hawking says not a good idea.  BM-organ play, jan 14, CM-evening Star Party also.
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