Weekly Space Hangout - Oct. 3, 2014: Islands, Earwigs and Other Mysteries!

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@cosmic_chatter

) David Dickinson (

Astroguyz.com

/

@astroguyz

) Ramin Skibba (

@raminskibba

) Brian Koberlein (

@briankoberlein

)

This Week's Stories:

Strange Titan feature

The Oct 8th Total Lunar Eclipse

Sierra Nevada complains to NASA

Primordial water in the solar system?

Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step Toward First Orion Flight

Curiosity Rover Drills at Pahrump Hills, Finds Earwig?

Sierra Nevada Challenges NASA's Space Taxi Deal With SpaceX, Boeing

Simulations Reveal An Unusual Death for Ancient Stars

The Orion Spacecraft is Almost Ready for Testing

MOM Delivers on Promise of Global View of Mars [The Planetary Society: Emily Lakdawalla]

Hyabusa 2 Launch Date Set [The Planetary Society: Emily Lakdawalla]

NASA's NEW Orion Blog

Indian Student Project Plans to Launch Earthquake Predicting Satellite by 2015

Moon's largest basin, was not caused by an impactor, but by crustal tectonics.

Cassini finds Cold Poison on Titan

Orion's Flight Test Rocket Moves to Launch Pad

Diffraction Limited to buy SBIG.

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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.