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593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
592-Invasion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

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


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
562-Monster Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Big Pond #47: How to Walk in the City
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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After moving from Cologne, Germany, to New York City, our producer Thomas Reintjes had trouble adjusting to walking in the bustling metropolis. Tra...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 24:08
  • Purchases: 2
544-Missing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

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


  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

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


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

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


  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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


  • 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...

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


  • 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
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill - 427
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill discuss the anthology, "Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place." They participated ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
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...

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


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
484-Aliens?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

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


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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