Sport of the Choice

Summary: Rob and Chris are facing a content-free week of very little astronomy news so have resorted to this. Apologies for the occasional audio glitch o this week’s episode. [MP3 Link] Episode #112. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: In defense of Facebook: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2014/06/28/in-defense-of-facebook/ Asteroid Zoo asteroidzoo.org NASA’s OCO to observe Carbon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28089165 ZooCon 2014 in Oxford: http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/07/01/zoocon-2014/ Two glasses of water per second from Rosetta’s comet: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-212 XKCD’s visualization of Solar System surfaces: http://xkcd.com/1389/ Astronomy Photographer of the year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/royalobservatory/galleries/72157645060485867/ Credits: 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/).