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479-Comet Catalina

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more

Added: Jul 19, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

467-Time Travel

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Looking out into space takes you back in time. To experience time travel go to a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground Internationa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more

Added: Jun 07, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

465-Returnee

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more

Added: May 31, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

463-Exiled Asteroid

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process eno...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more

Added: May 24, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

460-TESS

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KSFR and more

Added: May 12, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

458-Large and Close

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more

Added: May 05, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

455-17,000 to Go

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Apr 26, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

454-Comets and Asteroids

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the ot...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more

Added: Apr 20, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

453-HAMMER

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more

Added: Apr 19, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

452-Small But Deadly

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 12, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

451-Going Far

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more

Added: Apr 12, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

449-Cloud 7

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more

Added: Apr 05, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

447-Nuking An Asteroid

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Mar 30, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

448-Two PHA's

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Mar 30, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

440-Tracking Elon's Car

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Mar 01, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

433-Tiniest Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more

Added: Feb 08, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 10

430-Deportee

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more

Added: Jan 25, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

428-Phaethon

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet.During it's close approac...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more

Added: Jan 18, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

427-Meteor Whispers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more

Added: Jan 18, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

423-Silent ET

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The hypothesis that Oumuamua, the interstellar space rock, is an alien probe is pretty farfetched, however, how it came to have it's current shape ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more

Added: Jan 04, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

421-New Aten

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Aten asteroids can make close approaches to Earth. They are difficult to discover because they spend most of their time inside our orbit with thei...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Dec 28, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

417-Red Dwarf Planets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KKRN and more

Added: Dec 15, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

407-Plant Companionship

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN