Weekly Space Hangout – Sept 11, 2015: New Horizons Pluto-Palooza!

Host:

Fraser Cain (

@fcain

)

Special Guests:

New Horizons

staff Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator; Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager; and Emily Lakdawalla from

The Planetary Society

Guests:

Brian Koberlein (

@briankoberlein

/

briankoberlein.com

) Morgan Rehnberg (

cosmicchatter.org

/

@MorganRehnberg

) Alessondra Springmann (

@sondy

) Dave Dickinson (

@astroguyz

/

www.astroguyz.com

) Nicole Gugliucci (

cosmoquest.org

/

@noisyastronomer

) Ramin Skibba (

@raminskibba

)

This Week's Stories:

We're highlighting the amazing finds from the New Horizons mission today, but here are a few more articles we might have time to cover:

Eclipse Season Sept 2015

SOHO Nears 3000 Comet Discoveries

Cosmic neutrino background

Using "twin stars" to measure stellar distance

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