Astrobites@Anchorage: Liveblogging from the land of the midnight Sun

Astrobites@Anchorage: Liveblogging from the land of the midnight Sun

Greetings from Anchorage, AK, site of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) 220th Meeting taking place June 10-14, 2012. Just as we did at the AAS meeting in Austin this year, Astrobites will be liveblogging and reporting from Anchorage, suspending our regular posts for the next four days. This is now the fourth consecutive AAS meeting at which we’ve had an official presence; we were also at Seattle (AAS #217), Boston (AAS #218), and Austin (AAS #219).We’ll have lots in store for you over the next four days as we attend press conferences, talks, and poster sessions, so follow us on twitter and keep an eye on your RSS feeds and our website. We’ll follow a similar format to Austin, posting two articles a day (one each for morning and afternoon) that are continuously updated with short summaries and press report announcements. Thanks again to AAS President Debra Elmegreen and AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg for inviting us once again to attend the press conferences, allowing us to report on the latest astronomy headlines as they happen!If you’re here at the meeting, come see us at the Undergraduate Orientation Sunday night from 6:00-7:00 pm at the Fairbanks Room in the Marriott Downtown. We’re also presenting a poster (with updated statistics!), and would be delighted if you stopped by:Astrobites: The Astro-ph Reader’s Digest for UndergraduatesPoster #437.01Wednesday, June 13, 9:00 AM – 7:30 PM, Exhibit Hall, Dena’ina CenterThe following Astrobites authors are giving scientific presentations at the meeting:Magnetic Domination of Recollimation Boundary Layers in Relativistic JetsPoster #335.18Tuesday, June 12, 9:00 am – 6:30 pm, Exhibit Hall, Dena’ina CenterSusanna Kohler, M. C. BegelmanEclipsing...