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561-Hannes Is Back
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Coming Collapse of World Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Increasingly, people around the world are experiencing a fresh water crisis. More than 17 countries are under high water stress, and one fourth of ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:25
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
556-Earthly Moon Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a most amazing turn of events, an international team of astronomers have published research in the Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters w...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Jessica McCarty on Arctic Wildfires
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jessica McCarty
You may have seen some headlines recently declaring that “The Arctic is on Fire!” Are these just sensationalist reports? Or do these fires represen...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
547-Impact Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Marti...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Reviving the Giant Oysters (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-From tracking tigers in Nepal to mountainside surgery on Montana’s wolverines, Deborah McCauley is on a mission to save disappearing wildlife arou...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

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  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

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  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
539-Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were di...

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  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
538-Asteroid Slam
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our num...

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  • Added: May 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 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...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7