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Living Planet 03/08/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Waste not - From Scotland to South Africa, the Himalayas to Hawaii, this week we feature stories from around the wor...

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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 02/22/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Green protests, greener clubs As a global phenomenon, it's no wonder that climate change's impacts can be felt in our work...

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
524-Home Wrecker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
523-One Thousand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
522-Comets Africano
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
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...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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 ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
513-Mtn Ops
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 10/05/18
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: You are what you eat - Our food choices affect the environment around us, but just how much? From Scandinavia to Somalia...

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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
500-Why Look
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
497-First One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
496-Boomer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
495-Catching Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
494-Guard Down
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A co...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , and KKRN


  • Added: Sep 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
491-One Half Inch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
489-Martian Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7