When astronomers meet

Right now, the American Astronomical Society — the professional society for spacey-types here in the U.S. — is holding their bi-annual meeting. The meetings are usually a terrific amount of fun, with lots of astronomy talks, seeing old friends, and tons and tons of very cool astronomy news.

I usually attend, but circumstances gave kept me away this year. Still, there’s no need for you to miss out on the news. First of all, you can always go to Universe Today, which always has a lot of info on the astronews from the meetings.

Furthermore, Pamela Gay of StarStryder has the schedule of live press conferences on her blog, and she is live-streaming them on UStream. Even cooler, you can join the chat room in the stream, and ask questions that may very well get relayed to the scientists holding the presser. So you can ask astronomers questions! We’ve done this in the past and it’s a great way to see what’s what in cutting edge science. Don’t be shy!

June 9th, 2009 7:20 AM by Phil Plait in Astronomy | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “When astronomers meet”

1. Larian LeQuella Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 7:47 am

For some reason, I had a visual of Joe Francis there with his camera crews… I am a sad and disturbed individual!
2. Gary Ansorge Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 7:54 am

Ah, Universe Today, such a cool site. As an aside, I note this article pertaining to central black hole masses. I look forward to analyses of such and the impact those new calculations of B.H. masses will have on our perception of galactic Dark Matter mass.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/08/super-size-me-black-hole-bigger-than-previously-thought/#more-32175

Gary 7
3. Bort Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 8:11 am

Thats weird, when biologist get together, its mostly just a lot of beer drinking. Okay, maybe a little bit about the biology.
4. Supernova Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am

@Bort: Oh, there’s plenty of beer drinking at astronomy meetings too, never fear.
5. ccpetersen Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Very cool… I’ve watched Pamela do these gigs when I’ve been at AAS — can’t be there this time due to packing for a move. But, I’ll be at the Dec. meeting!
6. John Paradox Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

When Astronomers Collide! (after drinking lots of beer)

J/P=?
7. hale-bopp Says:
June 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Wish you were here
8. John Weiss Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 9:58 am

Aren’t the AAS meetings semi-annual, not biannual? (He says, having only been to one AAS meeting, although many DPS and DDA meetings.)

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