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128-Buzzed By An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock comes unusually close to Earth.

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
126-Ready Yourself for Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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How will humans react to the inevitable discovery of life outside of our planet?

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


  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
125-NASA RADAR Finds Asteroid Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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When what appeared to be a single moving point of light in the night sky made a close approach to Earth, NASA RADAR found it to be a small asteroid...

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


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
116-Three Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Discovered In A Single Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than three and a half hours 3 Potentially Hazardous asteroids were discovered.

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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
115-Ballistic Capture
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new plan for a space trip to Mars will be able to deliver a steady stream of supplies to a human space colony on the red planet.

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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
111-Green Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Green Meteors which have long been attributed to alien spacecraft or spy devices are in reality beautiful natural events.

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


  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
107-Mining Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal.

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: AIDS awareness painting in Chimoio, Mozambique. , Credit: Courtesy of Flickr user Ton Rulkens.
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 38:57
  • Purchases: 1
101-Navigating The Earth-Moon Dance
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We are discovering many small asteroids which pass closer to us than the Moon. Very rarely one of them crashes into the Earth or Moon.

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


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
99-Peppered By Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids.

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


  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
97-A Large Strange One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth.

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
95-Phantom Meteor Shower
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Observations of what appeared to be different objects, over the time span from 1819 to the present, are likely to be manifestations of the same tra...

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
91-Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small meteoroid traveling faster than a rifle bullet has more kinetic energy than a locomotive.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KMXT and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
80-Rocks From Space Tell A Tale
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The small asteroid which entered the Earth's atmosphere and injured nearly 1500 people in February of 2013 had a history which can be traced back t...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
83-Two Space Rocks Come Close To Planet Earth In A Week
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two Earth approaching asteroids were discovered on the same night.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KMXT, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Fuel
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
47- Earth Approaching Space Rocks Collected Over 6 Nights
From: Albert 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 Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
45-A World Full of Holes
From: Albert 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 Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
44-A Unique Metal World; Asteroid Psyche
From: Albert 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 Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
38-The Big Ones
From: Albert 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 Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
22-Asteroid 2013 TV 135
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2013 TV135 is a potentially hazardous asteroid which at first appeared to be on a collision course with planet Earth. Subsequent observat...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Disappearing"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
The Beat: Julie Hart - "Physics For Poets"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
The Beat: James Henderson - "Entropy"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Singing - "Compulsively Breaking Into Song, Almost Never."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:38