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180827 KZSB SBAU radio hour Baron CMcP TT BM incomplete notes
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00:00.000  Baron speculate on SBAU attendees
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00:36.694  Craig D Allen website
00:58.992  Donny double moon due to Mars? TT tries to clarify that it is a rumor since 2003
03:27.284  Chuck enters, 30s promos, B-used to commute on 350cc motorcycle, canyons cool sometimes.  B-oumuamua gone? CMcP-going out.  B-Bruce M on phone.

05:10.547  music: "it was a calm and cloudless night...shaking of the universe was about to occur...1609".  B-Jerry get well, tt in his seat, CMcP, BM on phone, B-any outreach? BM-planets good.  B-Saturn ears?  CMcP need 30x to see rings.  Mu Cephi, TT-Herschel garnet star hyper giant is beautiful.  CM-August 27 rumor, email said 75x tele will make Mars look size of Moon, but now each year email/twitter goes out saying just look at moon, mars will look same size.  polo club event other night someone brought it up as well.  B-is Mars dust storm abating?  CM-polar ice caps warm up and puffs up atmosphere and creates dust clouds.  pics of progression of storm can be seen.  B-delay a satellite landing?  CM-no  B-go to Mars in 10-15 yrs?  CM-hope not, should go to moon first and practice living in remote environment.  B-and find black slab on moon.  CM-tr u mp is pretty clueless.  water.  B-30M miles out, 2yr orbit, launch when close? CM-yes.  B-total recall Arnold movie, take a while to colonize.  CM-air gets ablated away.  cheaper to explore w/ robots, but people smarter still.  B-rocket man song,  "mars is cold as he ll".  TT-ave temp on mars is -81F vs 58F on earth.  B-air CM-solar wind breaks up.  BM-phase diagram, CO2 goes to gas from solid.  B-Europa moon all water?  CM-lots there, title flexing creates liquid water.  B-break, JW, thks for not showing up with cold!  music:  "its been a long time...see my dream come alive at night, not going to hold me down...faith of the heart" (enterprise TV song)

17:43.589  Music: Gato B Europa.  B-or Strauss? 2010 movie: ghost: do not touch Europa.  B-Astrovangza?  CM-wed, Carp; Thurs, Bacara; Fri, Refugio; Sat, Cachuma; Sun, Bacara;  camp-out Sept 28/29 potluck; etc Sept 7 1st Fri Prof Will van dam meeting; Sept 8 Astrovangza, make comets, charge to enter museum. Theme Star Wars villains.  B-planetarium shows? yes (Jason barrios).  B-ask Dr Van Dam to go easy CM-keep the quanta small.  B-lots of planets to see.  B-how to get to mars, CM-Insight mission on its way. BM-mars elliptical orbit.  TT-Ceres CM-Dawn mission.  B-vandenberg getting active? polar orbits, can go west? CM-possible to go retrograde.  B-Iridium CM-Next, multiple orbital planes to ensure signal available. Russians use Kazakhstan.  BM-did 115 outreaches last year.  B-fun women, wives of SBAU astronomers.  Jupiter mnemonic, I Eat Green Cheese...TT: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.  CM: some moons 1-2km mile diameters.  B-Neil degrasse Tyson, stars names are like phone numbers.  Music: Gato Europa.

28:21.461  music: as a spaceship flies, tho the endless space, stumbles on black hole, engine dies, frightened crew..  B-Bruce theater organ show?  TT-Buster Keaton  BM-The General  TT-great organist.  BM-does not block view.  B-Colin good officers.  members can come to board meetings.  B-what is going on in space?  CM-Parker solar probe, has to slow down, going around Venus. 3M miles from Sun.  B-only inner solar towards sun? CM-no, Cassini to Saturn went around Venus.  BM-Io goes around Jupiter in 2 days.  Juno mission.  radiation, cosmic rays, magnetosphere trapped radiation. Sun polar direction changes 22 yrs N-N, sunspot cycle 11 yr max-max.  B-Parker mission getting hot.  crazy.  BM-Venus hot due to CO2 atmosphere.  Mars lost magnetic field vs. Venus.  B-suns rays reflect from Venus, should be cool?  CM-heat penetrates. Earth greenhouse effect.  B-love this global warming.

37:39.991  music: calm and cloudless...summertime 1609, Galileo used his tele for very 1st time... B-everything crammed into a dot (start of universe).  CM-Osiris-rex mission to bennu asteroid, primarily metallic. Osiris is Egyptian goddess.  tt-sample return. CM-majority of asteroids are stony.  BM-SBTOS open console 2nd Sat of month usually.  TT-skip that one due to Astrovangza!  B-not at plan meet? BM-diabetic.  TT-BM inherited 11" mirror fr Bob Richard.  CM-star party up front with bright monitor.  B-Ojai light ordinance working?  CM-doing low temp LED's.  B-Camino lights?  CM-Tele Tues.  BM-Mojave great.  CM-DMZ btw north/s Korea was very dark.  B-galaxy light goes across CM-sometimes in May all around horizon.  B-are all solar systems randomly positioned?   CM-to see transit of exoplanets must pass in front.  5000+ detected. TESS will find more.  BM-many stars have planets  CM-80% of stars have multiple planets.  60% of stars are binary.  B-Parker slowing.  TT-Iridium sats coming up this month.

46:17.931  music: once i had enough of a mass  B-Parker solar probe, named for him.  slow it down?  CM-use Venus slingshot to slow it down [speed varies w/ each orbit see diagram at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe and   https://qz.com/1353429/the-parker-solar-probe-is-the-fastest-man-made-object-ever/  Venus fly-bys slightly slow the probe to allow it to orbit sun closer, but at a faster perihelion speed each time over several years] B-not sure if TT understands this, close to me in this, why does not probe speed up on approach?  CM-depends on approach.  BM-last speaker did great job of explaining orbits.  B-so some how it slows going around Venus, not using rockets.  B-grand tour?  BM-like Voyager 1/2.  B-both have gold records of Carl Sagan.  BM-out past heliopause.  B-let us know next theater organ event. music: Gato
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