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189 That's 2
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
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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
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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
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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
177-Flying Peanut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA sent a RADAR beam across the country by reflecting it from a passing asteroid. Scientists used these data to make a movie of this celestial v...

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


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
175-One 4 Ukraine
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although most Earth approaching objects are discovered by the large funded surveys, an alert observer with relatively inexpensive equipment can sti...

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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
174-Fascinating Europa
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Conditions on one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, could be similar to those near hydrothermal vents on the Earth's ocean floor. Could there be living c...

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


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
173-An Earth Like Planet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
171-Planet's Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By studying our sister planet Venus we better understand Mother Earth.

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


  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
168-Invisible Stuff
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We know there is invisible stuff out there. Its nature remains a mystery.

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
165-One Two Punch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two asteroid impacts provide clues about periods of chaos in the solar system.

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
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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
161-Half A World Away
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using the long arm of the internet, Russian astronomers are making discoveries using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

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


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
160-ALMA Spots Juno
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers now have the ability to detect the faint glow from asteroids and other solar system objects.

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


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
157-Kissing Frogs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.

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


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
156-8 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to ...

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


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
149-Near Venus to Past Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A potentially hazardous asteroid has been found which travels on a path which is quite different from most other asteroids.

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


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Nobody Discussed It:  Lacey Schwartz and “Little White Lie”
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps: Rick and Diana Abath
From: StoryCorps
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Rick Abath tells his wife, Diana, about being the night security guard at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the biggest art heist in ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
Have YOU "crossed-over" yet?
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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We sometimes run across these oh-so-young adults writing memoirs... huh? What do they know at 30-something? Well, if you look up the extensive entr...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Poetry about Thanksgiving: November 28, 2014
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music about Thanksgiving and autumn.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:57
Poetry about Sundays (November 14, 2014)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poems and music reflecting the particular energy of Sunday.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 50:44
Day Job 7: The Lonesome Luthier
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack restores broken guitars, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
Reading Dogs
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Becky Bishop, founder of Reading with Rover, a non profit organization that helps children learn how to read with the sup...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:02