What's the Middle of the Sky?

This week in space history, 19 57, sputnick one becomes first satellite in orbit a year later. And then much more recently, in 20 16, rosetta ended its spectacular mission by setting down on comet 67 p this week in 20 16. But it gets complicated for our southern hemisphere listeners. When planets are hanging out in the middle of the sky, when you're in the northern hemisphere, they tend to hang out in the south. So i usually say the south. Our southern hemisphere listeners are smart enough to reverse that and look to the north but i feel badly so i resorted to just making up something on the fly.