SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “One Second After The Big Bang” and “Tour of the Constellation Leo the Lion (Part 2)”
Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“41” (2012)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening
Earliest Signal Ever: Scientist Find Relic Neutrinos From One Second After the Big Bang
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/02/28/earliest-signal-ever-scientists-find-relic-neutrinos-from-1-second-after-the-big-bang/#1ddb10cd3d99
Brookhaven National Laboratory
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960×0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fstartswithabang%2Ffiles%2F2016%2F04%2F1-390-66-1200×952.jpg
Particle Collisions
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960×0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fstartswithabang%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F10%2F7-5-Reactions-1200×616.jpg
Big Bang Expanding Universe
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960×0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fstartswithabang%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F01%2F1-VRSRvJXybTeZdYSlcqR3sw.jpg
Gravitational Interactions
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960×0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fstartswithabang%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F02%2Fsim3dnew-highres-1200×778.jpg
Russia’s Passive-Aggressive Reaction to SpaceX May Mask a Deeper Truth
Dragon DEMO-1 Docking This Week
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/47301465141_22f3838a58_k-800×534.jpg
Waz Up?
Chaz covers:
Moon Phases
Occultations
Constellation and Navigation Tips and Factoids
Sunrise and Sunset Features
Q and A
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Two articles from Science Daily
Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190313114728.htm?fbclid=IwAR0Y7T-rNX59PD2iPOLosXgCBBX2BkGeASAGfeCH_M3yXV2hijD-TeuSxLE
Researchers Uncover Additional Evidence for Massive Solar Storms
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190311152744.htm?fbclid=IwAR2IUgVssCSsOIPYAn8Iqm1U8IyE8wI6nkM1xWp9lhpvh5TPNV1ceXiEhvc
Space Exploration and Space History
NASA has released the last panorama completed by the Opportunity rover
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA22908_fig1.jpg
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7348
A new crew arrives at the ISS!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Expedition_59_Launch_%28NHQ201903150001%29.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Soyuz_MS-12_crew.jpg
A NASA ISS outreach event will visit the Dallas Arboretum this coming Wednesday
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-destination-station-to-visit-dallas-with-astronauts-chris-cassidy-and-shannon
Space Birthdays
March 12th, 1923: Wally Schirra
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Walter_M._Schirra_%28Apollo_7%29.jpg
He was the first astronaut to go into space three times, and the only astronaut to have flown in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs
March 14th, 1879: Albert Einstein
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Einstein_patentoffice.jpg
March 14th, 1928: Frank Borman
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/The_crew_of_Apollo_8_addresses_the_crew_of_the_USS_Yorktown_after_a_successful_splashdown_and_recovery.jpg
March 15th, 1932: Alan Bean
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Bean_Alan_KSC-69PC-0710.jpg
https://www.alanbean.com/images/gallery/5/1982-Tiptoeing-On-The-Ocean-Of-Storms.jpg
This Week in Space History
March 11th, 1960: Launch of Pioneer 5
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Pioneer-5.jpg
March 13th, 1781: Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Uranus2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Sir_William_Herschel_and_Caroline_Herschel._Wellcome_V0002731_%28cropped%29.jpg
March 16th, 1966: Gemini 8: the first U.S. emergency in space
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Portrait_of_the_Gemini_8_prime_crew.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Gemini_8_docking.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/The_First_Docking_in_Space_-_GPN-2000-001344.jpg
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT