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495-Catching Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

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


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
494-Guard Down
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A co...

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


  • Added: Sep 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
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
456-Dangerous Trio
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of only four days, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, Brian Africano, Alex Gibbs, and Greg Leonard, discovered three Potentially Hazard...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
453-HAMMER
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
431-Tough Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some very tough asteroids regularly pass closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury and may contain valuable materials such as phosphorus, antimony,...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
395-House Sized Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
384-Flying By
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid tests planetary defenses.

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
379-Flying Mud Balls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large aster...

Bought by KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
377-Insider
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
353-Backwards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2 mile diameter object bucks the solar system traffic by traveling in a direction backwards to all of the planets.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
350-Asteroid Defense
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
349-Big and Fast
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids can still appear out of nowhere.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
344-Gnats
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Small asteroids swarm about the Earth in its orbit around the Sun like gnats around an outdoor light in the summer time.

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


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
342-That's Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid, which could pass under a basketball hoop, missed the Earth by about 9,000 miles.

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
329-Near Neighbor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
318-Caves of Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
317-Psyche Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Psyche is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and is composed of almost pure nickel-iron metal.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
316-Weird Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7