Coast to Coast AM topics

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This page has images and links that George Noory and I discussed on the Coast to Coast AM radio show on Sunday night, March 26, 2006.

If you are curious about the other times I have been on C2C, then you can read the pages I wrote for my appearances on July 29, 2005, December 22, 2004, July 5, 2004, February 26, 2004, and November 15, 2003.

Normally for these C2C pages I spend some time writing up a little essay on the topics, but unfortunately there wasn't time (they didn't invite me until Thursday). So, lamely, this will just be a bunch of links. However, I have written about a lot of this stuff before, so many of the links will go to my blog where there is more detail in my own words.

Comets and Stardust

• Minerals in comet indicate high formation temperatures
• The weirdness that is aerogel
• Proof that comets lose mass, not gain it.
• My series of webpages debunking James McCanney's nonsense.

The Solar eclipse on March 29, 2006

• The Sky and Telescope magazine's webpage about the eclipse
• A live webcast of the eclipse (will go live on March 29)

SpaceX and Falcon 1

• Falcon 1 lost after launch

NASA

• Bush appointee George Deutsch suppressing NASA science
• Deutsch resigns
• Deutsch opens mouth, inserts foot
• Congressional hearings on NASA's science
• Dawn Canceled
• More about NASA science
• Congressman investigating scientific suppression
• The golf shot hear 'round the world

WMAP

• WMAP sees influence of first stars
• A somewhat more poetic rendering of WMAP's results

Mars

• The new Mars Reconnissance Orbiter image

Saturn

• Water plumes from Saturn's moon Enceladus

Pluto

• Pluto has three moons