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Living Planet 05/04/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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LLiving Planet: Walk the Walk - On the show this week: Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really ta...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
456-Dangerous Trio
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of only four days, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, Brian Africano, Alex Gibbs, and Greg Leonard, discovered three Potentially Hazard...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
455-17,000 to Go
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
453-HAMMER
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
452-Small But Deadly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
451-Going Far
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
449-Cloud 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

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


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
447-Nuking An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
448-Two PHA's
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
445-Not So Secret
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
444-Near Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
443-Unsung Heroes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Planet 03/09/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Nuclear, post-Fukushima - Seven years on from Fukushima, we look at Japan's controversial efforts to send evacuees homes, and ba...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KVSC, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 10
442-Brian's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 03/02/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
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Living Planet: Surprise, surprise… Our planet is full of surprises, from burning ice to clever fish! Expect the unexpected on this week's episo...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WFIU, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
437-Christmas Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teamm...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
436-Lonely Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The lonely asteroids which travel high above and far below most of the other members of our solar system may be made out of very strong materials a...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
433-Tiniest Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
431-Tough Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some very tough asteroids regularly pass closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury and may contain valuable materials such as phosphorus, antimony,...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
429-2017's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 my team the Catalina Sky Survey led the world in the discovery of Earth approaching objects by identifying 987 of them as they whizzed by us.

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
426-Rose Rules Again
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Rose discovers 8 new interesting asteroids in a single night using the Catalina Sky Survey's Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona.

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
425-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
424-Long Winter Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
406-2 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
398-Mars Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7