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607-Good Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artistic illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. , Credit: Image Credit: Dieter Spannknebel / Getty Images
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and ca...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
605-Monsoon Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
603-Discovering Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
601-Phaethon's Child
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is h...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
The Struggle To Test and Trace COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we take a closer look at contact tracing in California and what it might look like in the future. We hear from San Francisc...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
595-Monster Comet C/2020 H2 (Pruyne)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
594-Earth Grazer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered that the Earth encounters many tiny asteroids as it zips around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Recently my Cata...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
592-Invasion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
590- Noctilucent Clouds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
586-Northern PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was observing in the constellation of Ursae Major with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
583-A Woman and Pluto
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Corporate Cash and Higher Education, and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: University partnerships with corporations. Topic 2: A conversation with a CDC ecologist.

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 49:49
  • Purchases: 2
581-Planet Hunting
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
580-Kacper's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On his first night of solo observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovere...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
579-Martian Vacation
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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SpaceX's new rockets fuel the dream of visiting some of the planet Mars' unique and spectacular wonders. Today you can visit the NASA Mars Curiosit...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
577-Comet Fuls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet P/2019 Y2 (Fuls) Imaged with the 40" telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona with bias rates equal to the comet motion. It is 4-60 second exposures co-added together. The stars appear as trails since the telescope was tracking the comet., Credit: Catalina Sky Survey/NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/University of Arizona
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a ta...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9