Weekly Space Hangout - Mar 3: Dr. Alan Stern, PI on New Horizons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmFTUxv6SCs Streamed live March 3, 2017. Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern ( @AlanStern / @NewHorizons2015 ), is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been received. Regular Guests: Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz ) Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier ) This week's stories: - Eclipse MegaMovie https://eclipsemega.movie/ - Interesting data from ALMA explains spirals around a star! - SpaceX plans to go around the Moon! - LUX-Zeplin (LZ): the next generation dark matter detector. - The Moon occulted Aldebaran. - Kimberly Cartier defends her PhD on May 9th! W00t! Enter the code for this week into this site: https://cosmoquest.org/achievements/code for a chance to win. This week's code is 5IpDzS Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!