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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
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
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 ...

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


  • 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.

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
449-Cloud 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 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
448-Two PHA's
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

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


  • Added: Mar 30, 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
345-364 Days
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
333-Whoppers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
312-200 Yards of Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid which can come to within about an Earth circumference of the surface of our home planet needs watching.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
290-Screaming Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interesting object is spotted streaking across the night sky at the rate of 17 full moon diameters per day.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
230-Close Or Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An Earth approaching object once again comes within range of our telescopes.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
221-Human Geological Epoch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We humans are writing a record of our activities into the rock layers currently being produced on planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00