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750-Asteroid Slam(538)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: DART, Credit: NASA
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our num...

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


  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
743-Alex’s Catch(531)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
727-Dust Moons(515)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit: J. Slíz-Balogh
The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

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


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
698-Aliens?(484)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
622-Lonely Vigil
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Jonathan Katz, author of "The Big Truck That Went By"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Katz about his book, "The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster."

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:56
Richard Miniter
From: David Kaufman
Series: Understanding the World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Richard is the National Security columnist for Forbes and is a New York Times best-selling author.

  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 50:30