Weekly Space Hangout - August 9, 2013

Gather round the internets for another episode of the Weekly Space Hangout. Where our experienced team of journalists, astronomers and astronomer-journalists bring you up to speed on the big happenings in the universe of space and astronomy.

Our team this week:

Reporters: Casey Dreier, David Dickinson, Amy Shira Teitel, Sondy Springmann, Nicole Gugliuci

Host: Fraser Cain

And here are the stories we covered: Curiosity Celebrates One Year on Mars

2013 Perseids Meteor Shower

Lori Garver Leaving NASA

Kilonova Discovered

Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip

Japanese HTV-4 Docked

MAVEN Update

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Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.