Narrow the Phalanx

Summary: Rob has seen the Northern Lights and Chris has a scroll. Not a bad start to the week. We cover an Array Of Acronyms (AOA) from CAP Schwamb and also talk about leap years, FTL Neutrinos and space invaders. [MP3 Link] Episode #23. 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://recycledelectrons.tumblr.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec. Links: Planet Hunters: Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2. (arXiv:1202.6007v2 [astro-ph.EP] UPDATED) They might be giants: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5394 Aurora: http://orbitingfrog.com/post/18435770573/norway-and-the-aurora Phobos-Grunt: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2035/1#.T0udmBHIgLs.twitter Blanco secondary mirror incident: http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/blanco-f8-secondary-incident FTL Neutrinos: http://io9.com/5887601/cern-and-opera-address-loose-cables-effect-on-faster+than+light-neutrino-readings http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/faster-than-light-neutrino-measurement-has-two-possible-errors.html                                         Martin Amis on space invaders:  http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html http://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n24/tom-shippey/vidkids    Zooniverse ‘Planet Hunters’ game: https://www.zooniverse.org/invaders Credits: Audio content Copyright 2011 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).