12/27/13--Weekly Space Hangout - 2013 Year in Review - Looking Forward
Channel: astrospherevids
Date: 2014-03-13

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Streamed live on Dec 27, 2013
Host: Fraser CainGuests: Brian Koberlein, David Dickinson (@Astroguyz), Pamela Gay (@starstryder)Big events of the year: - The Chelyabinsk Meteor - thanks to all of the dash-cam videos and Twitter!- Comet ISON - not quite the "Comet of the Century," but very fun to watch!- Cometpalooza - there was at one point 5 comets visible in the sky this past fall!- Voyager finally left the solar system - or did it? It's 17 light-hours away.- Government money "double-edged Sword of Death" - sequestration plus budget cuts hurt all space science research and education, and will continue to have effects into the future.- SpaceX successes - commercial launches of cargo delivery to ISS, satellite launches, plus many successful tests.- Chinese space program - Chang'E 3 landed on the moon and successfully deployed their Yutu rover.- India Mars probe - MOM launches successfully to Mars!- Europa's plumes - jets of water shooting out of the surface of the moon of Jupiter, discovered by Hubble.- Cassini's Photo of Earth - awesome photo sent back from Saturn, showing how tiny Earth looks from Saturn.- Chris Hadfield - his fantastic communication as an astronaut from ISS.- Curiosity's continuing mission on Mars - big discoveries include conglomerate rocks that were cemented together by ancient rivers, confirming liquid water's presence.- Kepler - found lots of extrasolar planets, but then we lost it. But we have 1000 confirmed exoplanets so far.- Gaia Mission Launch - it'll make an amazing 3D map out of part of the galaxy.- And last but not least - image of the year Space Frog! Looking forward to 2014:David's article "101 Astronomical Events for 2014″includes meteor showers, including the Quadrantids next weekend.A couple of the big events include:- On March 20, an asteroid will occult the star Regulus, visible to naked-eye.- A comet will come close to Mars on Oct. 19, and we'll be able to see it pretty clearly, plus MAVEN will arrive in time to image it.- Rosetta will be woken up and will harpoon a comet in November.We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page.Read more: ‪http://www.universetoday.com/107524/w...‬
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