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213-Great Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A dozen Earth approaching asteroid candidates are discovered in a single night.

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


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
212-Dead Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A potentially hazardous dead comet makes a close approach to Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
209-Stretch Marked Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Mars is in the process of turning a moon into a ring.

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


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
208-Hot Lunation
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My team the Catalina Sky Survey discovers 89 new Earth approaching objects in 24 nights.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
207-Carbon Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Comets may have brought the life enabling element Carbon to our planet.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
206-Stealthy Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The NASA NEOWISE satellite has discovered a family of dark, stealthy asteroids some of which make close approaches to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
205-Toy Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An asteroid small enough to fit under a basketball hoop makes frequent approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Mars.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
203-Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A rare very large Earth approaching object is discovered in an unusual place in the sky.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
202-Martian Purity
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Humans must be very careful not to introduce any of Earth's organisms into the Martian environment.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
201-Frequent Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A small asteroid about the size of a U-Haul moving truck makes frequent visits to our part of the solar system.

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
199-Space Boomerang
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A space boomerang meets its fate in a collision with the Earth about 60 miles off of the coast of Sri Lanka producing a bright, but harmless light ...

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
196-Dark, Bright, and Beautiful
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Time spent under the natural night sky is one of the great joys of being human.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
194-Star Wanderer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Comets have blazed a path to the stars for humans to follow.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
193-Survivor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A small asteroid survives a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
192-WISE Alive
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The repurposed WISE spacecraft has discovered a stealthy asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
191-Two Odd Fellows
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
190-EX Most Dangerous
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Generally the more data one obtains on a Near Earth Object the less likely it is to strike Earth. This is a story of how this process works.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
189 That's 2
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
It is gratifying to see that an individual with modest equipment can make scientific discoveries.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
184-Most Dangerous
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid hunters have discovered an object, which with limited data, appears likely to come close to the Earth in 2081.

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


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
182-Earth Life On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Amazingly, a tough organism found in Antartica on planet Earth has adapted to Mars like conditions.

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


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
180-An Eternal One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
View an object which is likely to last longer than the Earth and Sky.

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


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
178-Monster Telescope
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A huge new telescope is under construction. It's data is likely to revolutionize our view of the Universe.

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


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
173-An Earth Like Planet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The NASA Kepler spacecraft has found an Earth like planet which has spent 6 billion years in the habitable zone of its star. It is mind blowing to...

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


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
166-Asteroid Diamonds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Diamonds are brought to Earth by asteroids. They are also created on our planet by impacting celestial objects.

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


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
163-Space Junk
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Humans have left their trash in space. Space junk threatens our current activities in many ways.

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


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5