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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
Living Planet 01/04/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Making changes - The new year is a time for reflection, making changes and figuring out ways we can make this year bet...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Planet 12/21/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Green living and us - With governments struggling to meet their climate goals, we look at what people in Germany and b...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 12/14/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: It's hard to believe but there are still people out there who refuse to believe that climate change is real, even when the ...

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


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 12/07/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Earth, our home. As world leaders meet for COP24 to discuss climate change, we're asking what does home mean for the peop...

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
World in Progress 12/06/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Laws to save the Planet - Client Earth CEO James Thornton: how using the law creatively helps to save the planet. Marid...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
516-Space Weather
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide sp...

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


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 11/30/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Asking the difficult questions - Why did tragedy strike an environmental activist couple in Chile? Who will win the fig...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
515-Dust Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

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


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 11/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: we bring you stories of greener transport around the world, from eco-motorbikes in Uganda to the cycle-mad city of Utrecht,...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
514-Close Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet ...

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


  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 11/16/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: From a small amphibian with miraculous regeneration properties, to wild animals wandering the streets of Nairobi — and even...

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
512-Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is f...

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


  • Added: Nov 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 11/09/18
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Adapt and thrive - As our environment changes, we can change with it. From transforming plastic waste into stylish pavi...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
510-Fourth Closest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

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


  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
509-Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is hap...

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
507-Eric's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 h...

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 10/26/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How will life on Earth change under 3-degree warming? We journey to one location on each of our planet's continents to disc...

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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


  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 10/12/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Plastic Pollution and Us - Plastic: are we addicted? We look at our relationship with plastic pollution — and in the s...

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
503-Fuls III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space...

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


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
502-Pair of PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
501-Carson's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7