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796-COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), Credit: skylive.com
On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzcho...

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


  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
795-Spiral Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Credit: Jan Erik Vallestad
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscov...

Bought by Raven Radio, KGLP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare meteorite class called Aubrite, Credit: SETI
It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown astero...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
774-Loss and Gain
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen
The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
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...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
730-Busy Night(518)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images
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: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
721-Eric’s Night(507)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Getty Images
Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may ha...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 09/23/22
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Stopping monumental melting Glaciers may only exist in certain cold corners of the world, but just like tropical rainforests, peat...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 09/01/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The aftermath of historic protests in Cuba, one year on Thousands of Cubans took to the streets over a year ago. These prot...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 08/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We hear how the once decimated rocky reefs off the coast of Scotland have been replenished, travel to East Africa where fa...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 08/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Where do nature and art meet? From the vast majesty of the Antarctic to the neat symmetry of a beehive, environmentally-mi...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 08/18/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: In Cameroon, global wheat woes are forcing the African nation to rethink the way it farms. Meanwhile in Argentina, a new ge...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KWIT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 8/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: we’ll be hearing from the European Space Agency, on a mission to track terrestrial changes from space. Drought and water ma...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Living Planet 08/12/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Who speaks for the trees? - We travel to the Brazilian Amazon, where the forest is disappearing at an alarming rate and...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 07/29/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We explore how rich Gulf countries can gain more control over their food supply as climate change and political insecuritie...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jul 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 7/22/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: How climate change is making extreme weather a regular event. As Viktor Orban reforms taxes to fund a budget shortfall, Hung...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00