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An oversight on my part (can’t count) I accidentally skipped episode 31 and went to 32. To avoid messing up database records and associated hyperlinks, I will not be going back to episode 31 so the next one will be episode 33. Episode 32 will remain for ever in some multi dimensional episode void.
So don’t be looking for something that does not exist. Even if your name is Hans Blix.
Want to know what’s in the night sky for this month? Tune in to Chris Northen’s radio show between 09:00 and 10:00 on allfm 96.9
Manchester Astronomical Society’s member Mike Oates presents “sky notes” on the first Friday of each month.
Yes, you can listen online. Next broadcast – tomorrow morning.
In size, mass and orbit Venus is the nearest Earth has to a twin in the Solar System. It is the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon, hottest planet in the solar system, has a day longer than its year, is named after the Roman goddess of love and yet it has a deadly atmosphere and its the one planet that gets closer to the Earth than any other.
In this episode, recorded in late 2008, Professor Fred Taylor, Jesus College Oxford, talks about the Venus Express mission.
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This week’s quote is my rather obtuse reference to the runaway greenhouse effect on the planet Venus. Its from Will Rogers and its what he says to his niece on seeing Venus de Milo in the Louvre in Paris.
“See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?”
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You will have noticed that I’m not quite on schedule right now. Indeed have not been so for a few weeks. As a one man band I expect that to happen from time to time. Last week however was special. For the very first time, I became a dad. Both my wife Regine and my daughter – Amrita Christine May-Singh are well and healthy.
I have some projects underway for Astrotalkuk and will resume a more regular pattern in the coming weeks and months.