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787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
778-Two Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
762-Kacper’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid IDA, Credit: NASA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 5...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
752 Lunker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
From: Tradeoffs
Piece image
More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
654-Night Vision (401)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
581-Planet Hunting
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
562-Monster Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

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  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is hap...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9