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October 2009 Extra: Moon Watching Oct 20, 2009

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In this show we find out about Autumn Moonwatch from Steve Owens [01:59-07:31] and we hear all about the rings and moons of Saturn from Prof. Carl Murray [10:05-39:44]. We put your astronomical questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [42:50-62:30], get a summary of recent news and events [39:44-42:50] and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show.

October 2009: Interfering Oct 02, 2009

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In this show we have an interview with Robert Laing about interferometers and ALMA [14:16-29:49], and we talk to Willem Baan about interference in radio astronomy [29:57-40:33]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [02:42-13:56] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the October night sky [43:48-57:23].

September 2009 Extra: The Dish Sep 20, 2009

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In this show Megan talks to Robert Hollow (ATNF) about Pulse@Parkes [01:04-17:18], we put your astronomical questions to Dr Roy Smits [25:40-40:12], get a summary of recent spacecraft news [17:18-25:40], hear about the Station Fire at Mt Wilson and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show.

September 2009: Anomalous Sep 02, 2009

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We're back from our summer break with an interview about 'anomalous emission' [13:43-27:39]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [02:10-10:45] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the September night sky [28:07-45:18].

August 2009: Impact Aug 03, 2009

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This episode features an interview we recorded with Prof Miller Goss about pioneering Australian radio astronomer Ruby Payne Scott [13:17-38:21]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:04-11:37] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the August night sky [38:46-1:01:56].

July 2009 Extra: We choose the Moon Jul 20, 2009

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With it being the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Earth's Moon, we dedicate most of this episode to things lunar. We mention the latest amazing images from NASA's LRO showing the Apollo landing sites from orbit, Sir Bernard Lovell describes Jodrell Bank's involvement with the space race including tracking the Soviet's Luna probes and involvement with Apollo [04:35-32:00]. As always we put your astronomical questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [32:05-42:46] and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show.

July 2009: Italian Job Jul 06, 2009

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It's summer and the Jodcasters are dispersed but Jen and Dave managed to meet up in Milan's central station to record this episode. This episode features an interview we recorded with Vik Dhillon in May about high speed astronomy [10:45-38:10]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:37-10:23] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the July night sky [25:18-38:34].

June 2009 Extra: Pre-solar Jun 19, 2009

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Meteorites can tell us a surprising amount about our solar system and its environment. In this episode we talk to Ernst Zinner about his studies of pre-solar grains from meteorites [00:53-26:17]. As always we put your questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [27:37-41:56] and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show. We also chat about Jodcast Live!

June 2009: Solar Powered Jun 02, 2009

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This episode we bring the last of the interviews that were recorded at the JENAM. We have an interview with Mike Lockwood about the variability of the Sun [10:53-38:17] and talk to Jim Hinton about high energy astronomy [44:52-51:59]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [01:37-10:31] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the June night sky [52:11-69:32].

May 2009 Extra: A big week in space May 17, 2009

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This jam-packed show comes at the end of a jam-packed week of major events in astronomy. We have more interviews recorded at JENAM including what's next for the International Year of Astronomy [02:11-10:43], future instruments at the European Southern Observatory [10:43-15:13], gamma ray bursts [15:14-24:06] and cosmic rays [24:07-35:36]. We get the low-down on ESA's Planck and Herschel spacecraft [36:02-57:32]. As always we put your questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [60:14-72:13] and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show.

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