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794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

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  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
745-100 Moons(533)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Schmidt Telescope Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood

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  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
731-Greg's Comet(519)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
725-Mtn Ops(513)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/12/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Like the COVID-19 vaccines? Then you'll love the way mRNA is being tried out on certain cancers. Also, a human stool sample...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 09/14/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What can we learn from a bunch of rhesus macaques playing video games and 'choking' under the pressure? Also, it may be be...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 05/11/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The more people who vaccinate, the quicker life goes back to normal. But is there a (proven) way to convince the "on the fe...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 04/29/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Who owns space? - We dive deep into outer space. Who owns space? Who owns mineral resources and water? The race is on — i...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 04/13/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What is going wrong in the minds of conspiracy theorists when they end up jumping to false conclusions? Also, why are peopl...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01192021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: As Germany doubles down on the lockdown, new data suggests vaccines will keep us all safe for a long, long time. But even a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 04/14/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Get tested - In this episode, one of the host's children is sent to a coronavirus test center. Also, if your loved ones a...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 24/03/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The coronavirus lockdown - Never in history have so many human beings been stuck inside their homes. This social isolatio...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
531-Alex's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
514-Close Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
478-Comet Leonard III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
458-Large and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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...

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  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
290-Screaming Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interesting object is spotted streaking across the night sky at the rate of 17 full moon diameters per day.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
287-Heavenly Palace
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
284-Dark Trails
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR. Researchers are using ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
283-Micro-Astronomy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Ev...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
282-Biggest Rocket
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Space Launch System Core Stage will start a new age of space exploration,

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
274-New Horizons Continues
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a successful trip through the Pluto system, the New Horizons Spacecraft is heading towards an even more distant object.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9