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458-Large and Close

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

Retrospective: Dave Gardner #223 (Encore)

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

A glimpse of why the Conversation Earth series was created and how guests and topics are chosen. Dave and Kaitlyn also share highlights from the fi...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL

Added: May 01, 2018
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

455-17,000 to Go

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 39: Junk

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature

Marcus Eriksen wanted to draw attention to a problem no one could see. So he sailed into the middle of it.

Bought by KRZA and KUER

Added: Mar 28, 2018
Length: 27:59
Purchases: 2

440-Tracking Elon's Car

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 25: Ordinary Giants

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature

Science journalist Lynda Mapes takes us deep into a New England forest, where one tree is telling the story of climate change. This is the final ep...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 04, 2017
Length: 16:38
Purchases: 2

Retrospective: Dave Gardner #223

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

A glimpse of why the Conversation Earth series was created and how guests and topics are chosen. Dave and Kaitlyn also share highlights from the fi...

Bought by KTRL