Weekly Space Hangout - Jan. 23, 2015: SpaceX, Rosetta, and Asteroid Updates!

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@MorganRehnberg

) Ramin Skibba (

@raminskibba

) Dave Dickinson (

@astroguyz

/

www.astroguyz.com

)

This Week's Stories:

Square Kilometer Array: The Cosmology Engine

Black hole creates 'changing look' quasar

SpaceX announces new internet plan, new investors

Triple Shadow Transit

Big Asteroid 2004 BL86 Buzzes Earth on January 26: How to See it in Your Telescope

Discovery Channel Founder Jumps into Video Stream: "Netflix for Science"

Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan a Space Internet

Trans-Neptunian Objects Suggest That There are More Planets in the Solar System

Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System

NASA Undecided on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept as Near-Earth Asteroid Approaches for Flyby

Report: SpaceX Launch of NASA's DSCOVR Mission Slips to NET Feb. 9

Kepler Finds Three Earth-Size Planets Orbiting a Nearby Star

Symbol of NASA's Space Shuttle Program Torn Down

White Spot on Ceres/ Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres

Cosmic Radio Burst Caught Red-Handed

New Horizons Begins Pluto Observations Ahead of July Flyby

MUOS-3 Launch

Cosmic "Nuclear Pasta" May Be Stranger than Originally Thought

Liftoff! SpaceX Gets $1 Billion from Google and Fidelity

Strange Mega Storms Sweep Uranus

No, Astronomers Haven't Found Two New Planets in our Solar System

NASA and Microsoft Collaboration Will Allow Scientists to Work on Mars

New Rosetta Pictures Reveal Crack in the Neck of Comet 67P

Private Moon Firm (Moon Express) to Sign Deal for Test Flights at Cape

Three Extremely Luminous Gamma-Ray Sources Discovered in Milky Way's Satellite Galaxy [HESS]

Telescope to Seek Dust Where Other Earths May Lie [LBTI]

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