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Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
736-Home Wrecker(524)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: IDA, Credit: NASA
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
733-Lunar Space Rock(521)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Space Rock, Credit: NASA
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
729-Close Again(517)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Small Space Rocks, Credit: Texas A&M
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
728-Space Weather(516)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
726-Close Space Rocks(514)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception:Small Impacting Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet i...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
725-Mtn Ops(513)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
724-Aten(512)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is fa...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
723-Very Close One(510)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Exploding Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
720-Large PHA(506)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
719-What A Night(505)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's Conception Benu and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
718-Vulcan(504)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Don Davis (University of Florida)
In the fictional Star Trek series, Vulcan, Spock's home planet was imagined to orbit the A component of the triple star system 40 Eridani [Eri-dani...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
717-Fulls II(503)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space....

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Does cloud computing use a lot of energy?
From: Possibly
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These days, I can log on to my phone and pull up a file that’s stored thousands of miles away. It’s pretty awesome. But does access to all of this ...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
712-Tiny Traveler(498)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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...

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
703-Martian Water(489)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
702-20 Years(488)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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