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This week on the show: Making friends, making enemies - We have a complex relationship with the other living beings around us. From farming an...

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


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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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
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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...

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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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...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...

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


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

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9