127 Getting Vesta Out The Door

Rob and Chris talk about the latest Philae/Rosetta news, new plans for missions into the Solar System, and men in hats.

Links:

• Higgs Hunters: http://www.higgshunters.org
• Lots of cool ideas for missions on the Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/van-kane/20141125-a-potpourri-of-future-mission.html
• Sonification (Rosetta/Philae) : http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/20/the-sound-of-touchdown/
• Philae to come back to life in March? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-11/27/rosetta-philae-reddit-ama
• Spotify reveals that we all listened to Aerosmith after the Philae landing https://insights.spotify.com/br/2014/11/21/aerosmith-rosetta-comet/
• ThinkGeek’s solar system shot glasses: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/2033/?CJID=%zi&istCompanyId=007b6f44-e03c-4536-8b29-58e160067143&istItemId=iaxqlaxwi&istBid=t&cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=
• Asteroid diamonds are weird : https://asunews.asu.edu/20141120-lonsdaleite
• Map of bolide distribution : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4380
• Vesta mapping complete : https://asunews.asu.edu/20141117-vesta-map
• Serial: http://serialpodcast.org
  SEN: Sen.com

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Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).