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491-One Half Inch

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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

Added: Aug 30, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

GN_4.29_MexicanGalapagos

From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4

Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

Added: Aug 26, 2018
Length: 02:30

483-Double Trouble

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

478-Comet Leonard III

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

476-Lost Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

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

Two exciting new scientific discoveries have ignited our curiosity and are guiding our search for evidence of past and/or present life on Mars.

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

Added: Jun 22, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

471-Botswana Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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

Added: Jun 08, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 8

466-Dangerous Impactors

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

Huge pot farm coming to Great Lakes region

From: Great Lakes Today

Canada is moving to legalize recreational use of marijuana, and officials predict that it’s likely to happen by the end of the year. As pot supplie...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WVBI-LP, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more

Added: May 29, 2018
Length: 04:11
Purchases: 7

464-Big Atira

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

461-Brian's First

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

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

Sierra Leone's Conflict Diamond Trade (2004 NPR's Day2Day)

From: Hechtech

David Hecht reports on the condition of Sierra Leone's diamond trade

Added: May 08, 2018
Length: 05:07

457-30 Years of Fireballs

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

Where does the buck stop?

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...

Added: Apr 10, 2018
Length: 06:00

Living Planet 03/30/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Living Planet: Nature in transition - On this week’s show: Colombia’s impressive birdlife has survived civil war. Can it now help save the cou...

Bought by 'The Sea', KUAF Public Radio, KRJF-lp, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNMU-FM and more

Added: Mar 29, 2018
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 10

Living Planet 03/23/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

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

Michael Benanav talks about “Himalayan Bound” on Booktalk

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

In “Himalayan Bound: One Family’s Quest to Save Their Animals–And an Ancient Way of Life” New Mexico-based Michael Benanav travels to northern Indi...

Bought by KSFR