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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
793-Close Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception space rock and Earth, Credit: PIXABAY
Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 wil...

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
792-Closest Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY
P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 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...

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


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
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
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...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 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...

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


  • 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
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
GN_3.21_Walk Dont Drive
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
After being declared the dirtiest city in the world in 2015, Paris takes action by launching a monthly “No Car Day."

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.23_Desert Forest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_3.27_No Deforest Norway
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Trees are the lungs of our planet. Norway takes a stand for mother earth by banning deforestation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.40_Elephant Fashion
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When temperatures hit record low levels in India, a wildlife sanctuary steps up to make sweaters for the biggest animal of them all: elephants.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.47_Oil Free Ireland
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ireland has finally shared the pot-o-gold at the end of their rainbow by pledging to fully divest from fossil fuels.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.48_Boomerang Bags
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Piece image
An Australian community conservation group is making and sharing reusable grocery bags to shoppers for free.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.62_Turtle Triumph
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A local lawyer, and environmentalist proves many hands make light work by encouraging Mumbai citizens to help clean up beaches and save the Olive R...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM


  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.15_Edible Spoon
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why throw away your spoon if you can eat it? A new solution to disposable plastic utensils.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.02_Eco Cooler
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A clever re-using of plastic brings cool comfort to millions.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30