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Recycled Electrons

Robert Simpson and Chris Lintott

Frequency: 1 episode/92d. Total Eps: 17

Astronomy and science chatter from astronomers Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Recorded in the heart of Oxford on the finest land available. Follow us @recycledelec on Twitter and individually on @chrislintott and @orbitingfrog. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on iTunes.

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136: Woolly, Fluffy Attempts

Thursday, September 27, 2018 • Duration

Chris and Rob discuss dusty Martian rovers, the 10th dotastronomy conference and an AI that writes astronomical papers.

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Episode #136. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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Audio content Copyright 2011-2018 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to the Space Telescope Science Institute for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

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135 Orbiting Rob

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 • Duration

Chris quizzes Rob about his upcoming departure from the Zooniverse. There is some brief coverage of news, but also politics, gadgets reviews and other nonsense. A sensible as ever.

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Episode #135. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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Audio content Copyright 2011-2015 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

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134 Astronauts and Streetlamps

Friday, February 27, 2015 • Duration

Chris and Rob discuss streetlights, astrology and Ceres: the dwarf planet. There are organic molecules at the centre of a galaxy, and a black hole that’s the wrong size.

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Ceres is getting odd: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/26/ceres_shiny_spot_is_actually_twins.html
Astrology on the NHS: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/25/uk-tory-mp-says-astrology-woul.html
New jobs at Zooniverse: http://daily.zooniverse.org/2015/02/23/two-new-jobs-at-the-zooniverse/
Organic molecules around a black hole: http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/e/news/pressrelease/20150226alma_revealed_surprisingly_mild_environment_around_a_supermassive_black_hole_1.html
Astronauts and street lamps http://io9.com/how-to-hack-your-street-lamps-like-an-astronaut-1686876944

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Episode #134. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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133 Candy Melt

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 • Duration

Chris and Rob are joined by Lovely Scottish Grant and Becky Smethurst for an expanded-panel Recycled Electrons. We discuss Mars One, Mars’s mysterious plumes, and astronomers on Twitter. Also: Super Mario.

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A near miss: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/scholz-star/
Cube sat mission ideas: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/0217-planetary-cubesats-begin-to-come-of-age.html
Scientists slow the speed of light: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30944584
Mystery Mars haze ‘baffles’ scientists: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31491805
Mars/Moon/Venus Conjunction on Feb 20th: http://www.universetoday.com/118906/catch-a-conjunction-triple-play-on-february-20th-as-the-moon-meets-venus-mars/
Rosetta is taking really close-up shots now: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/02/16/rosetta_closeup_photos_from_a_low_pass_over_the_surface.html
We don’t know what hit Chelyabinsk: http://www.psi.edu/news/papervishnu
Astronomers on Twitter: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106086
Wikipedia sonification: http://listen.hatnote.com/

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132 Ambitious Podcast

Monday, February 9, 2015 • Duration

Chris is in Hawaii and Rob is not(!). They talk about observing at the CSO, the differing views of scientists and the public, and the new UK-based Twinkle exoplanet mission.

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(American) Public vs. (AAAS) Scientists http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/
Curiosity form above: http://gizmodo.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-looks-like-a-tiny-pimple-on-mars-1684492070
First images from New Horizons of Pluto and Charon: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/02041311-new-horizons-returns-first.html

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Episode #132. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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131 Flocculent Penguin Isotropy

Monday, February 2, 2015 • Duration

Chris and Rob talk about advanced robotics, supernovae in M82, and the rise and fall of the BICEP2 results. There are Yellowballs in the Milky Way, and a lovely Philae GIF.

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Philae GIF http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/30/7953217/philae-lander-descent-comet-67p-esa-rosetta
The BICEP bubbles bursts https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/the-bicep2-bubble-bursts/ and http://sci.esa.int/planck/55362-planck-gravitational-waves-remain-elusive/
M82 from LOFAR: http://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/oso/news/Pages/Lofars-record-sharp-image-gives-astronomers–a-new-view-of-galaxy-M-82.aspx
Yellowballs: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4462
A nice merger : http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1503/
A movie of a laser beam pulse at super high frame rate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq0H4-nvBB8
Making robots that can do better than us http://io9.com/atlas-the-pentagons-humanoid-robot-just-got-a-major-u-1680654984
MWP made APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150131.html with the Yellow balls

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Episode #131. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at . Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

130 Stones of Yap

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 • Duration

Some QVC hosts have been discussing the Moon, Dawn has a new view of Ceres, and New Horizons is closing in on Pluto. Rosetta is starting to get data about its comet, and the Planetary Society is going to build a Solar Sail.

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Science literacy and QVC: http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2015/01/15/qvc-hosts-literally-dont-know-what-the-moon-is/
New Horizons is approaching the Pluto system http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30954673
Rich algae blooms under Earth’s polar ice: http://laughingsquid.com/submersible-vehicle-discovers-rich-algae-blooms-beneath-polar-ice-in-areas-previously-thought-barren/
Dawn’s new view of Ceres: http://www.universetoday.com/118325/heres-dawns-best-view-of-ceres-yet/
Planetary Society Lightsail : http://www.planetary.org/press-room/releases/2015/planetary-society-announces.html
An asteroid comes to visit:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/press-releases/asteroid-2004-bl86/
Rosetta results: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Getting_to_know_Rosetta_s_comet
A dimming quasar: http://news.yale.edu/2015/01/22/black-hole-diet-creates-changing-look-quasar

Beagle 2 and a Small Hippo

Friday, January 16, 2015 • Duration

Beagle 2 has been found, intact, on the surface of Mars! Planck is the height of a small giraffe, and Lovejoy is blazing across the Northern sky. Chris and Rob talk about many things from the last three weeks.

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Two more planets: http://www.universetoday.com/118252/astronomers-are-predicting-at-least-two-more-large-planets-in-the-solar-system/
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter - visible in one evening http://sumzzal.com/data/imgupload/2015/01/06/20150106015605_20150105160805201.gif
Falling onto Titan - 10 years since Huygens: http://io9.com/heres-what-it-looks-like-to-fall-to-titan-from-space-1679545272
Comet Lovejoy’s tail flapping in the (solar) wind: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/01/14/comet_lovejoy_animation_of_the_tail_movement.html
China puts orbiter around the Moon to image potential landing sites

http://cir.ca/news/china-in-space
Game Recreates Entire Galaxy, 1,000 Players Determined To Explore It

http://kotaku.com/one-thousand-gamers-embark-to-explore-the-entire-galaxy-1677603818
PH3c: http://daily.zooniverse.org/2015/01/05/phvii/
We found Beagle 2! http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-01/14/mars-probe-beagle

128 Methane on Mars

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 • Duration

In the last episode of 2014, Chris and Rob discuss methane on Mars, the hacking of the .Astronomy meeting, and the nature of time itself. No biggie.

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.Astronomy 6 [lists and links to hacks within]
2 arrows of time

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Episode #128. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

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127 Getting Vesta Out The Door

Friday, November 28, 2014 • Duration

Rob and Chris talk about the latest Philae/Rosetta news, new plans for missions into the Solar System, and men in hats.

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Higgs Hunters: http://www.higgshunters.org
Lots of cool ideas for missions on the Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/20141125-a-potpourri-of-future-mission.html
Sonification (Rosetta/Philae) : http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/20/the-sound-of-touchdown/
Philae to come back to life in March? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-11/27/rosetta-philae-reddit-ama
Spotify reveals that we all listened to Aerosmith after the Philae landing https://insights.spotify.com/br/2014/11/21/aerosmith-rosetta-comet/
ThinkGeek’s solar system shot glasses: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/2033/?CJID=%zi&istCompanyId=007b6f44-e03c-4536-8b29-58e160067143&istItemId=iaxqlaxwi&istBid=t&cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=
Asteroid diamonds are weird : https://asunews.asu.edu/20141120-lonsdaleite
Map of bolide distribution : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4380
Vesta mapping complete : https://asunews.asu.edu/20141117-vesta-map

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