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585-Mini Moon II
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope w...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 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
582-Stealthy Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which approach Earth from inside of our orbit about the Sun are often difficult to discover and may represent a unique threat to our home...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
576-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
574-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
IE: Inside Europe, 1/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Northern Ireland appoints new leaders after a three-year hiatus - Russia's Putin confirms Mishustin as new prime minister - Germany, Britain and ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
572-David's Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
IE: Inside Europe, 12/13/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Boris Johnson's Conservatives win a decisive majority in UK elections - EU leaders say they are ready for the next phase of Brexit - Deadly conditi...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
566-October Fest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
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