Weekly Space Hangout – Jan 8 – Elizabeth S. Sexton-Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTPBdEkB7Q

Streamed live on Jan 8, 2016

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guest: Dr. Elizabeth S. Sexton-Kennedy, who works at FermiLab as Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Offline Coordinator. CMS (at CERN/LHC) is a particle detector that is designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy proton collisions in the LHC.
Guests:
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Alessondra Springmann (@sondy)
Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter)
Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / http://www.astroguyz.com)
Pamela Gay (cosmoquest.org / @cosmoquestx / @starstryder) ???
Their articles:
– Unusual black holes

– Falcon 9 successfully lands + next landing attempt

– Mars InSIGHT mission delayed

– Venus meets Saturn

– New elements!

– The NASA budget: 19.3 billion and NSF gets 7.7billion!
What’s new this week:
We’ve had an abundance of news stories for the past few months, and not enough time to get to them all. So we’ve started a new system. Instead of adding all of the stories to the spreadsheet each week, we are now using a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each week, and then Fraser will be selecting the stories from there. Here is the link to the Trello WSH page (http://bit.ly/WSHVote), which you can see without logging in. If you’d like to vote, just create a login and help us decide what to cover!
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