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Hi folks, if you’re a member of the popular social networking site Digg.com, I was wondering if you could take a second and “Digg” our Astronomy Cast podcast. That will help us rise in the rankings of Digg.com, and get more publicity. If you’re a member of Digg.com, you can access the page here: digg.com/podcasts/Astronomy_Cast
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My friend and forum co-admin, Phil Plait, reminded me that today marks 10 years without Carl Sagan. His son, Nick Sagan has been organizing an online memorial to commemorate his life and influence on science.
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I’ve done the draw, and the lucky winner of a free copy of the Year in Space 2007 calendar is David Williams from Fairbanks Alaska. Congratulations David, a copy of the calendar is on its way now.
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ABC News just let me know that they’re going to be taking video questions from the public to get answered by astronauts currently on board the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station. How cool is that? This is part of a show they do called Be Seen, Be Heard.
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I try not to get involved in political matters, but sometimes I’ve just got to take a stand. You might have heard that my good friend Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy (and co-forum administrator) is up for a Weblog 2006 award for the best science blog. Unfortunately, he’s up against some ferocious competition, including Pharyngula and Real Climate, two of my other favourite blogs. So vote for Bad Astronomy. You can actually vote once every 24 hours, so vote early, vote often. Stuff that ballot.

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Once again, I’ve got a little giveaway for the alert Universe Today reader. This time we’re giving away a copy of the Year in Space 2007 desk calendar, which will be be sponsoring Universe Today until the end of the year. All you have to do to enter is send me an email with the subject line, “Year in Space 2007 Giveaway”, before Saturday, December 2nd at 12:00 noon (Pacific Time). I’ll choose one lucky winner at random from the entrants. Then I’ll throw away all the other emails (for your privacy).
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I hope you all know by now that Universe Today publishes a daily guide of what you can see in the night sky every single night – Astronomy What’s Up. I just found out about a related service that sounds interesting. It’s called eZipSky, and they’ll send your cellphone an SMS text message whenever there’s something interesting happening in the night sky. Another cool feature is that they can send you an alert 30 minutes before the International Space Station will fly over your part of the sky.
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Once again, the Year in Space 2007 calendar is sponsoring Universe Today as we move towards the holidays. I’ll be featuring the calendar on the website and in the newsletter until the end of the year. This 144-page spiral-bound desk calendar has 53 full-colour space photographs, so you can gaze into infinity as you plan your week. It’s filled with space trivia, sky events, daily Moon phases, and additional calendars. Universe Today readers can save at least 25% off the suggested retail price and pay only $11.95 USD by ordering online. There’s free shipping in the U.S.,and deeper discounts for multiple copies.
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Thanks to everyone who emailed me to win a copy of Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5 DVD. In the end, more than 500 of you threw your names into the hat. And the winner is… Chris Houser from Boone, North Carolina. Chris, the DVD will go out in the mail today. Of course, it’ll probably get snarled up in the Canada-US border, so let me know when you receive it.
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