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533-100 Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood.

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
531-Alex's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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.

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
525-Collision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
509-Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
507-Eric's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may h...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
502-Pair of PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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.

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
500-Why Look
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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.

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
483-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
478-Comet Leonard III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
474-Earth-Venus Shuttle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of it's regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. It's ultimate fate is to collide with o...

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7