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565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
564-Heavy Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
561-Hannes Is Back
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
559-Farming On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 ...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
IE: Inside Europe, 9/13/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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- The British government releases scenarios for a no-deal Brexit - France's 'yellow vests' vow to turn this month into a black September of protest...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 8/30/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Italy's populist/far-right government makes way for a new left-leaning coalition - Outrage across Turkey over the government's response to femicide...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
552-Night Sky Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On October 7, 2018 the moonless night sky became 25% brighter and reached the point where it is at a small light polluted city, all without human ...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 8/23/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Germany welcomes UK PM Boris Johnson. What's next for Brexit? - New protests link the past to the present in Prague - Re-migration: how safe is Syr...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
550-Lunar Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From the naked eye to the Hubble Space telescope each advance has enabled new astronomical discoveries. We have thus begun to understand our place...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Year Into Legal Weed, What Does the Industry Look Like (from Inside a Business Conference)?
From: Jonathan Davis
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This a news radio piece about a cannabis business conference in San Francisco, and more largely, about the weed industry in California, a year into...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 13:04
547-Impact Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Marti...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

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  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
538-Asteroid Slam
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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...

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  • Added: May 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Pond #25: US-American Students in German Universities
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 1