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570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Big Pond #51: The Right to Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Berlin and Los Angeles share a common problem: homelessness. Producer Caroline Porter reports on topic, which is the focus of the Goethe-Institut L...

Bought by WNYO and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
We Ask You To See Our Hearts
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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The nuance of language, of idiom. The difference between being looked at–stared at, glared at–and being seen. When we look with eyes of love, we se...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
546-Snoopy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
544-Missing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
The Big Pond #27: Welcome to Motherland
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Three women, two countries, one shared experience: Motherhood. From giving birth to receiving support – our producer Melissa Gerr looks at the role...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 3
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
524-Home Wrecker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Big Pond #12: A House for Reconciliation
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 3
523-One Thousand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
522-Comets Africano
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is hap...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
503-Fuls III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
465-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
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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
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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