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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...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • 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.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 31, 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
460-TESS
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KSFR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
458-Large and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

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


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
455-17,000 to Go
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
454-Comets and Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the ot...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
453-HAMMER
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
452-Small But Deadly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
451-Going Far
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
447-Nuking An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

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


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
440-Tracking Elon's Car
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
433-Tiniest Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
430-Deportee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
428-Phaethon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet.During it's close approac...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , Bandon Community Radio, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
427-Meteor Whispers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
417-Red Dwarf Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
407-Plant Companionship
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
404-Jess's Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large undiscovered Earth approaching asteroids are still out there.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
396-Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
381-Peaceful Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
374-Brute
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still being discovered.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
371-2 Headed Space Worm
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
366-3 Explorers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock which can pass closer to us than the communications satellites may have been ejected from our Moon.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5