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716-Pair of PHAs(502)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida and Gaspra, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
715-Carson’s Night(501)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Asteroid and Earth, Credit: ESA
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
714-Why Look(500)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida, Credit: NASA
What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
713-Oppy(499)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opportunity Rover, Credit: NASA
The NASA Mars Opportunity Rover, nicked named Oppy by those who operate and love it ,was designed to last 90 days on the Martian surface but has co...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
712-Tiny Traveler(498)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
711-First One(497)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: HST-Galaxies, Credit: NASA
Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
701-Touching The Sun(487)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
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, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
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 enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
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 othe...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, WTIP, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
GN_6.32_ Air To H2O
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
GN_5.05_CaliforniaWinWin
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Piece image
The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
623-Arecibo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
598-Illusive Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he d...

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


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
597-Aging Satellites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell p...

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
559-Farming On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
On Earth plants provide us with medicines, food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. In the future, in addition to providing treats like strawberries it ...

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


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Studio Drift Drones Swarm an Ode to Apollo at 50
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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To honor the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this July, we introduce Studio Drift, the Amsterdam-based artist duo whose poetic work ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 1
493-Ringed Dynamo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5