All Pieces for Al Grauer

 
47- Earth Approaching Space Rocks Collected Over 6 Nights
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope was used to discover 29 potentially Earth Approaching objects.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
46-How Far Is Forever?
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA Hubble Space Telescope was used to take images of the most distant galaxies ever observed. This view takes us back in time to shortly aft...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
45-A World Full of Holes
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Earth has been struck by objects from space many times in the past. Could asteroid impact craters be the place to search for evidence of life o...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
44-A Unique Metal World; Asteroid Psyche
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A visit to the asteroid Psyche will provide clues as to the nature of the Earth's core.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
43-First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone'
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Kepler Space Craft has discovered an Earth like planet which may have conditions which may allow life as we know it to exist. Can we imagine w...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
42-Astronauts Reveal Sobering Data On Asteroid Impacts
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Earth Day, Astronauts revealed that the Earth is struck by small asteroids more often than previously thought. They propose to build and launch...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, and KENW


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
41-Navigating The Night Sky
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Learn to navigate the night sky with your naked eye and find the place where the NASA Kepler Space Craft has found an Earth like planet at the righ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, and KENW


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
40-Itokawa A Strange Space Peanut
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Measurements of its rate of spin and shape reveal that the asteroid Itokawa has a very odd structure.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
39-Dash Cams and the Anatomy of An Airburst
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Data obtained from automobile dash cams has enabled scientists to understand the airburst which occurred when a small asteroid entered the Earth's ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
38-The Big Ones
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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One million human lifetimes ago an asteroid impact was at least partially responsible for eliminating the dinosaurs. The asteroid hunting community...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
37-Slow Movers At The Edge Of The Solar System
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two new objects have been discovered in what was once thought to be an empty region of our Solar System. They are so far from our Sun that they are...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
36-Earth And Moon As Evening Stars
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A human standing on Mars would see the Earth and Moon as either a double morning or evening star. Recently the NASA Curiosity Rover took an image ...

Bought by KKRN, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
35-An Asteroid With A Ring
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For hundreds of years the Saturn was the only planet known to have rings. Now we know that Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune also have rings. Recently ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
34-Number 5000
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The 5000th near Earth Asteroid found by the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey was published early in 2014. This group has discovered 47% of the Eart...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
33-A Busy Month In The Earth's Neighborhood
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In March of 2014 six asteroids which pass closer than our Moon to us were discovered. Fortunately none of them will impact the Earth anytime soon.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid With A Moon
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are discovering that many asteroids have a peanut shape and that some have small moons.

Bought by KSFR, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
31-A Gentle Breakup of an Asteroid
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid spins up, develops 6 tails, and breaks apart under the gentle influence of Sun light.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC, KSKQ, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
30-Asteroids On An Inside Track
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Only 13 out of the more than 10,000 Earth approaching objects have their orbit completely within that of the Earth.

Bought by KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
29-An Odd Couple: Curiosity and The Maven Spacecraft
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Curiosity Rover and The Maven Spacecraft explore Mars and stir our imaginations.

Bought by KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
28-Finding An Asteroid for Astronauts
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A prelude of a manned flyby of Venus and Mars could be a manned mission to an asteroid. The search for an appropriate asteroid continues.

Bought by KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KREV-LP, WKCC and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7

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