Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: Dr. Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Cassini Imaging Science team and the Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Guests:
Pamela Gay (cosmoquest.org / @cosmoquestx / @starstryder)
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )
Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com)
Nicole Gugliucci (cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer)
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Rhys Taylor (G+: Rhys Taylor)
This Week’s Stories:
Cassini Begins Series of Flybys with Close-up of Saturn Moon Enceladus?
Statistics of gender representation
Online harrassment fascilitates the problem
Marcy Story: Original Buzfeed Article
Marcy Story: Marcy’s open letter reply
Marcy Story: Immediate follow-up by Dr. John Johnson
Marcy Story: CSWA Chair’s Message to the Greater Astronomical Community on Harassment
More on Marcy mess and broader perspective on harassment in astronomy/academia and here
A thousand faint galaxies in the Coma cluster
Why Scientists Are Speculating About ‘Alien Superstructures’ Around an Irregular Star
Age of the Dragon: SpaceX has ambitious plans for the Red Planet
Sierra Nevada on watch for critical cargo award
SpaceX Wrapping Up Falcon 9 Failure Investigation
Radboud radio telescope to travel with Stratos II+ rocket again
NASA chief says ban on China space cooperation is ‘temporary’
<a href=”http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-nasa-wants-get-mars-180956895 “China is building a huge telescope to try and listen to aliens”>Here’s how NASA Wants to get to Mars
Check Out This Drone Footage Of China’s Insanely Huge Radio Telescope and here
New Horizons Sends Back New Images Of Pluto’s Smallest Moon Styx
Hubble sees an aging star wave goodbye
Climate models used to explain formation of Mars valley networks
NASA names John Honeycutt new SLS Program Manager
China has had a telescope on the moon for the past two years
Young stars’ flickering light reveals remarkable link with matter-eating black holes
Hubble’s Planetary Portrait Captures New Changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
VLA Reveals Spectacular “Halos” of Spiral Galaxies
AIMing a light across millions of kilometres (Asteroid Impact Mission)
Rev223 (Preview of Cassini Spacecraft Activities Around Saturn)
Repaired SpaceX rocket to fly by early December, company says
Shedding light on the growth of stars and black holes
NASA, Israel ink space cooperation agreement
Pufferfish planets could explain how hot Jupiters get so big
Comet Encke’s Tail May Shed Light on Solar Wind Heating
Blast waves in the sun’s atmosphere
What smacks into Ceres stays on Ceres, research suggests
NASA Issues New Awards for Planetary Data System
A breakthrough on the mathematical understanding of Einstein’s equations
Media Accreditation Open: Orbital ATK Space Station Resupply Mission
LMA telescope unveils rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies
Sure, This Star Is Weird. But Aliens?
Robotic Astronomer Finds New Home
Mound near lunar south pole formed by unique volcanic process?
Cassini’s Close Flyby of Enceladus Yields Surprising, Perplexing Imagery
North Pole of Saturn’s Ocean Moon Enceladus?
ExoMars Heads to the Red Planet in 2016
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Sweet jezus, I come here for science and it is contaminated with this feminists propaganda too. I am done with Universe Today, going to some other sources that actually talks about science.
Get over yourself. You don’t have to be a feminist to acknowledge that a middle aged dude feeling up undergraduate women is a really sketchy.
Right, but I think his point is that this is a website to discus astrophysics and space science, not gossip about sexual harassment and sexism.
And I think it’s perfectly reasonable on an astronomy blog to talk about astronomers and the things, good or bad, that they get up to.
Perhaps. I guess the last thing I will say on this is that this is not the first time I have seen this happen. Well meaning people will, every so often, talk about these issue. However, soon it becomes all they talk about. I do not want to see that happen here. I can, as a result, understand some peoples negative reactions to this.
I come here and listen to these shows to hear experts talk about science and their research. These are not lawyers, they are also not crime analysts or law enforcement. I’ve no doubt that they are smart or well reasoned individuals, but they are not experts in this field anymore than I am. This does not mean that I think that they do not have a right to share their opinions on these kind of issues. Honestly, I would not mind hearing them. This was just not the venue for that, though.
Never imagined in the wildest of dreams that Geoff Marcy and sexual harassment would be linked in the same sentence.
But here we go sad days to see the demise of brilliance. Wait a minute all that ingenuity cannot figure out basic etiquette, class and manners especially how a lady should be treated??? What a frikkin toad of a bummer!!!
This has got to be absolutely the best episode yet! Dr. Porco is flat out fascinating! She is so much part of the Saturn exploration legacy no doubt her name will be remembered for centuries if not longer! Thanks you guys for setting up that interview. Thanks Carolyn for making yourself available in this public outreach forum. Good job you guys!
Thank you so much! The Cassini mission is right up near the top on my ‘favorite mission’ checklist!
Geoff Marcy a sexist pig? What a let down. OINK you dude!