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487-Touching The Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
485-Last One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed bre...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
483-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
476-Lost Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After tha...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
473-Ryugu Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is conducting a six year flight from Earth to a potentially hazardous asteroid, Ryugu, and return a sample ...

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
472-Martian Mysteries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two exciting new scientific discoveries have ignited our curiosity and are guiding our search for evidence of past and/or present life on Mars.

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
471-Botswana Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
469-Flying Couch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My birthday present from outer space was the opportunity to use the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Az to discover a tiny ...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
468-Peek A Boo Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
467-Time Travel
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Looking out into space takes you back in time. To experience time travel go to a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground Internationa...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
465-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
464-Big Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
463-Exiled Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process eno...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
462-Our View
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
459-Falling Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
457-30 Years of Fireballs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17