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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
535-Alone Or Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Great Smog
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata
What does Sandip Roy miss most about San Francisco? Clean Air.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
532-Teddy's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth Ap...

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


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
528-Asteroid Billiards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
518-Busy Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
513-Mtn Ops
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
501-Carson's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
497-First One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
496-Boomer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
GN_4.29_MexicanGalapagos
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
488-20 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
487-Touching The Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

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


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
485-Last One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed bre...

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
477-Hannes's Discoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my newest Catalina Sky Survey Teammate, Hannes Groeller, had an excellent training night, working with Greg Leonard, on our 60 inch teles...

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


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
476-Lost Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After tha...

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
473-Ryugu Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is conducting a six year flight from Earth to a potentially hazardous asteroid, Ryugu, and return a sample ...

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
471-Botswana Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
469-Flying Couch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My birthday present from outer space was the opportunity to use the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Az to discover a tiny ...

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


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
462-Our View
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
457-30 Years of Fireballs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

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


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Living Planet 03/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Playing with food - This week on the show: from cultured cabbages to musical leeks, we explore the weird and wonderful ways that...

Bought by 'The Sea', KRJF-lp, 'The Sea', KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Beekman 1802 Farm Boys of New York are loving the world as their neighbor and the Earth as their mother
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Beekman 1802 Farm Boys of New York are loving the world as their neighbor and the Earth as their mother. As owners of one of the fastest growin...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 2
Makers Series 6: Cacao Hunters
From: Slow Melt Productions
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Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 39:06