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765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

Bought by WTIP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

Bought by Raven Radio, KGLP, WTIP, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
588-Encounter With Saturn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
587-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
530-Cuban Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
525-Collision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
521-Lunar Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being eject...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
518-Busy Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
475-Lonely Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

Bought by KENW, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tasmanian Devil on the Brink of Extinction
From: Jake Warga
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Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3