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737-Collision(525)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Breakup, Credit: NASA
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Fistfull of Joy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Stalls set up to sell Holi colors in Kolkata. , Credit: Sandip Roy
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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
Limeric Lovers Are Like No Others
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Limeric Lovers Publishers stall at the Kolkata Book Fair, Credit: Sandip Roy
If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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
IE: Inside Europe, 2/10/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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After the earthquake: in the wake of what is rapidly becoming one of the century’s most devastating natural disasters, we spend a half hour in the ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Fest in Festival
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
City of Joy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The French author Dominique LaPierre died recently and that made Sandip Roy think of the author's legacy on his hometown of Kolkata.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
On the River
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Ganga Voyager, a boat on a river cruise down the Ganga in India, Credit: Sandip Roy
The longest river cruise in the world is underway on it’s maiden voyage in India.

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Chicken from Glasgow
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Google search for chicken tikka masala, Credit: Sandip Roy
Unlike many of the people we lost in 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Pele - Ahmed Ali Aslam might not have been a household name. But...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
727-Dust Moons(515)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kordylewski's strange "dust moons", Credit: J. Slíz-Balogh
The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 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
Happy (Indian) Christmas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Kolkata Christmas scene, Credit: Sandip Roy
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Pride and Celebration
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A rainbow cape at 2022 Kolkata Pride March., Credit: Sandip Roy
From the World Cup to Pride Parades, Kolkata is a city that loves to turn everything into a festival.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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
For Lease
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Christmas tree in San Francisco's Union Square, Credit: Sandip Roy
Returning for the first time since COVID, Sandip Roy finds a different San Francisco, one seemingly for lease.

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
722-Close(509)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Asteroids Around Vega, Credit: NASA
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Sunrise, sunset... Son rise!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A billboard for Amul butter in India celebrating Rishi Sunak as the new British prime minister., Credit: @Amul_Coop on Twitter.
Some in India are over the moon that Rishi Sunak has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Sweet Diwali
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An array of Diwali sweets., Credit: Sandip Roy
Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets!

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
IE: Inside Europe, 10/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Is the war in Ukraine compromising the security of NATO member states? - Boosting cyber security through ‘trusted connectivity’ - Political tensio...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00

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