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Global Rent A Scope Spotlight: Asteroid Hunter

Interview with Asteroid Hunter Andrew Lowe

Global Rent A Scope Spotlight: Asteroid Hunter. Interview with Asteroid Hunter Andrew Lowe on Astronomy.FM



Global Rent a Scope's (GRAS) monthly radio show that shines the spot light on the achievements of GRAS members, is hosted by Dr Marleen Bryan and broadcast live on Astronomy.FM.

The first show of 2010 will be, Asteroid Hunter: that will focuses on Andrew Lowe an Canadian amateur astronomer who has discovered 594 asteroids, and has made 454 of the discoveries by remote access to Global Rent a Scope's robotic telescope network.



Tune in to the live radio stream on Astronomy.FM at Sun Jan 31th 18:00 MNT / 20:00 EST / Feb 1st 0100 UTC.  Join us in the chat room and interactive live with Andrew and Marleen during their show. 

Last month Dr Marleen Bryan interviewed Nicole Melso Teenage Researcher, who used GRAS's robotic telescopes to image and calculate the rotational period of asteroids.

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Astronomy.FM is the new meeting-place for amateur astronomers - a site for all things astronomy! We feature live radio broadcasts; a daily AAPOD (Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day) contributed by our members, with a contest for AAPOD of the Month sponsored by Global Rent A Scope; a forum, chat room, picture gallery, and more! Join us at Astronomy.FM - where the astronomy action is!