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642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
640-Rocks or Rockets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a hu...

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  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Can you remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
From: Possibly
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On our show, we talk a lot about how to reduce our carbon dioxide, or CO2, emissions. But some scientists are developing another approach to climat...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 03:51
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Should I buy electric power tools?
From: Possibly
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Today, we have a question from listener Todd Penoyer. He does maintenance for retail shopping centers in southeastern Massachusetts and he uses a l...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 03:56
636-90 Inch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 90 Inch Bok Telescope, Credit: Steward Observatory
On Kitt Peak in Arizona, the Steward Observatory's Bok telescope's 90 inch light collecting mirror enables the discovery, study, and tracking of sp...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
635-Exploring Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We are lucky to be alive in an age when anyone with an internet connection can participate in the exploration of Mars. Your unique brain-eye combi...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
How do I get renewable energy for my home?
From: Possibly
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How would you like to get all of your electricity from renewable sources? It turns out, you can, and you don’t even need to put panels on your roof...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 03:28
634-Meteor Goes Splat
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On 28 February 2021 at 9:54PM a large slow moving fireball meteor was observed over England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The Wichcombe m...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
633-Dress Rehearsal
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recent...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
632-Couch Potato
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski is the first person in our group and perhaps the first person in the world to discover a potential...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
What kind of water heater should I buy?
From: Possibly
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Today, we have a question from listener Tom Chun. Recently, his water heater stopped working. Tom didn’t have time to spare, so he just went with t...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:46
630-Largest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Hercules when he spotted a fast moving point of light str...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
629-Loneliest Asteroid
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 Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
GN_7.12_TalkToTheHands
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Kenyan inventor has designed a pair of gloves that translate signed hand movements into speech.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
What does net-zero really mean?
From: Possibly
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If you follow the news about climate change, you’ve probably heard the phrase “net zero.” But what does “net zero” really mean?

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:37
628-Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2020 my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 171 asteroids which can occasionally come closer to us than our Moon. In fact 21 of them, averag...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Is it worth it to buy a hybrid car?
From: Possibly
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Taking into account the energy that goes into making a whole new car, is it more energy-efficient to keep the gas car you already have, or to get a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
625-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the ...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 14
Polarization at the Tipping Point: The Long Term and Wide Angled Views
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 20: Andrew Gelman & Stephen Hawkins
There’s been a lot of polarized events, responses and counter-responses over the past few months. So it seems time to step back and take a longer r...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 26:25
624-In Coming
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a movi...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
623-Arecibo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
620-Interstellar Travelers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For millennia humans have gazed into the night sky and have dreamed of traveling to the stars. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
How does hydropower work?
From: Possibly
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Hydroelectric power is the most widely-used renewable energy source in the world. It creates about one-sixth of the world’s electricity. But how ex...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 03:58