StarStuff

About Me

Hi, I'm Stuart Gary, I'm a journalist and broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I love science, especially the majesty and wonder of space, so I put together a weekly astronomy show for the ABC called StarStuff.

In my spare time I like to fly planes, practice karate and pistol target shooting and play around with my cars, a twin Turbocharged Falcon GT Interceptor and a DeTomaso Pantera GTS.

I’m vegan, a life member of the RSPCA and a supporter of several animal welfare organisations.

My other great passion is music which is understandable when you realise that I was a radio music jock long before I became a journalist. My record library contains tens of thousands of singles, albums, videos, CD’s and DVDs. These days that’s all stored in an 8 terabyte raid enclosure linked to a desk top PC at home. My tastes range from rock and grunge through to trance and new romantics. At the moment I’m listening to heaps of MGMT, William Control, Hawthorne Heights and Short Shack, but I have lots of time for the classics like Placebo and the early stuff from Silverchair, In fact Neon Ballroom is still my favourite album, and Emotion Sickness is still one of my two favourite songs (the other being William Control’s Death Club).

StarStuff is a great name for the show, but it works on more levels than just astronomy, it’s really cool for any science program because everything in the universe after the quark gluon plasma of the big bang is star stuff even the iron which makes your blood red was manufactured in the supernova explosions of stars. Carl Sagan said it best, we are all star stuff.


This blog is designed to allow me to publish all the things which can’t fit into StarStuff. There’s heaps of really interesting stuff out there and only a half hour window for the show, so each week becomes a battle to try and squeeze it all in. This blog lets me do that.

You can check out the show at the offical ABC StarStuff website:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff/

There's also an official ABC StarStuff Twitter feed: @abcstarstuff

And an official ABC Science website: http://www.abc.net.au/science/


The legal stuff: This is my personal blog. The views expressed in this blog are those of me only and not the Australian Broadcasting Corporation or its management. I do not claim ownership of any of the media in this blog. where possible credit and or source will always be given. If one of your photos or other media is submitted in this blog and you would like it removed please let me know.

Blogs I follow:

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   LAUNCH ALERT
   
   Brian Webb
   Ventura County, California
   launch-alert-editor@earthlink.net
   www.spacearchive.info
   
   2012 December 16 (Sunday) 15:50 PST
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   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
   As of 2012 December 16

   Launch
   Time/Window
   Date (PST/PDT) Vehicle Pad/Silo
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   JAN-MAR To be announced GBI —-
   A Ground-based Interceptor will be launched to assess vehicle design changes. This missile defense-related flight does not involve an intercept attempt.

   FEB 10 10:04-10:48 Atlas V SLC-3E
   Vehicle will launch NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission

   Spring To be announced GBI —-
   Missile defense test. A Ground-based Interceptor will be launched from Vandenberg in an attempt to intercept a target launched from Kwajalein in the central Pacific.

   APR To be announced Atlas V SLC-3E
   Vehicle will launch the GeoEye 2 commercial Earth-imaging satellite

   NET APR 28 19:25:26-19:30:26 Pegasus XL Offshore
   Payload is NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite. Vehicle will be air-dropped from an L-1011 jumbo jet flying offshore. The aircraft will be staged from Vandenberg AFB. Launch appears to occur during evening twilight. This could produce an interesting display as rocket exhaust at high altitude is illuminated by the Sun.

   APR-JUN To be announced Falcon 9 SLC-4E
   Vehicle will launch the Cassiope satellite for the Canadian Space Agency

   The above schedule is a composite of unclassified information approved for public release from government, industry, and other sources. It represents the Editor’s best effort to produce a schedule, but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are withheld until they are approved for public release. For official information regarding Vandenberg AFB activities, go to http://www.vandenberg.af.mil.

   All launch dates and times are given in Pacific Time using a 24-hour format similar to military time (midnight = 00:00, 1:00 p.m. = 13:00,
   11:00 p.m. = 23:00, etc.).

   The dates and times in this schedule may not agree with those on other online launch schedules, including the official Vandenberg AFB schedule because different sources were used, the information was interpreted differently, and the schedules were updated at different times.

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