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161212 KZSB SBAU radio show December 12 2016 Baron JW TW CM TT BM; show mp3 attached 54 minutes w/ commercials, recorded on replay Sunday 3pm.

00:00.000 B-intros.  Tabby's star discussed re: talk this evening.  Star movement, Saturn's rings.  Star Trek intro music.
10:12.000 commercial

12:11.000 B-intros.  BruceM pipe organ.  Telescopes and tracking, GoTo mounts, JW-voice activated mount control. Orion. SBAU planetarium show vs art work for constellations, naming southern constellations.  TW-88 constellations.  more planetarium discussion, only one in SB.
24:46.000 commercial

26:48.000 Holst Mercury TT-goes around at 100Kmph. B-is it tidally locked w/ sun? no, not like Moon.  Pluto lock, resonance w/ Neptune. CM-get to see 60% of moon, JW-lunar libration, wobble. TW-up/down 5.2% so can see a little more on top at times.  Mars, Neptune moons will eventually come into planet.  B-fragments, JW-Roche limit.  Shoemaker-levy comet into Jupiter broke up.  B-why planets survive?  CM-far enough away from Sun.  JW-asteroid belt controlled by Jupiter.  B-Juno mission ok?  JW-results from 1st pass, showing band clouds are 300km deep.  B-red spot?
36:03.000 commercial

38:04.000 Holst Jupiter.  B-300yrs of red spot.  Tabby star talk.  Niburu false planet. JW-planet IX beyond Pluto may be real.  BM-moon reflects 16% like asphalt.  B-what else is going on out there, Missions?  CYGNSS mission to launch soon, to see hurrican winds. Cassini mission to end 2017.  Mars Rover mission.  ESA to send a rover 2020, but recent test crashed.  Russians responsible for landing part, but never have worked yet.  B-Spirit, Opportunity?  JW-one still works.  Technology satellites for testing.
45:16.000 commercial

47:16.000 Holst Saturn, bringer of old age.  B-club has food, want Devils eggs!  TW-newsletters.  color online.  Speaker for January, exoplanet geology, ucsb.  JW-information from light.  B-white spot on Neptune? CM-black spot, comes/goes.  TT-clouds on Neptune 1000mph.  Westmont outreach coming up.  Moon occults Aldebaran.  CM-for science, need exact timing.  B-outreaches have tiny little Saturn...JW-people love it.  TT-winter solstice coming up.  shortest light of the year.  SciEng council meets.
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