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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...

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


  • 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...

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 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
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
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
472-Martian Mysteries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two exciting new scientific discoveries have ignited our curiosity and are guiding our search for evidence of past and/or present life on Mars.

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  • Added: Jun 22, 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
468-Peek A Boo Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
467-Time Travel
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Looking out into space takes you back in time. To experience time travel go to a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground Internationa...

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


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
466-Dangerous Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered more than 90% of the Earth approaching asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. It was thus unus...

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 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
464-Big Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KENW, WTIP, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
463-Exiled Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process eno...

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


  • Added: May 24, 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
461-Brian's First
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Brian Africano's first Potentially Hazardous Asteroid discovery can come near to the Earth and Mars.

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


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
459-Falling Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
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“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:07
Credibility in African-American Blues Musician: Who's Believed, Who is Not
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: I'd have Sonny Boy Williamson testify and sing 'Bye Bye Bird', Credit: youtube.com/watch?v=YSdwhnsV4Go
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:34
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50