#106 - April 2021 Part 2

<p>The Discussion:</p> <ul> <li>The ‘Wiltshire Audio Anomaly’</li> <li>20% off the book Vera Rubin – A Life for US listeners using url: <a href= "www.hup.harvard.edu/exhibits/HX7578">hup.harvard.edu/exhibits/HX7578</a></li> <li>@StargazerRob’s alternative astrophotographer of the year award</li> <li>Listeners’ emails</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The News</span>:</p> <ul> <li>April Fools research papers</li> <li>Commemorating 60 years since Yuri Gagarin’s 1st Spaceflight</li> <li>An update on @NASA’s Mars Ingenuity copter</li> <li>Rounding up @SpaceX’s metal toilet roll tube developments & explosions</li> <li>NASA’s Artemis program update and presidential priorities for NASA</li> <li>Cluttered & congested orbits leading to satellite collisions</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moons of the Solar System</span>: Our show segment exploring the discovery, exploration and our knowledge of the solar system’s moons. And we move onto Jupiter’s 75 less fashionable moons.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Q&A</span>: ‘<em>How are satellite licences awarded and by who? And can/should they make requirements of companies to make them responsible for their space junk and their impact on ground based astronomy?</em>’ From our good friend Matt Rayment in London, UK.</p>