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816-David's Close Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Encke, Credit: Wikipedia
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ when...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, Raven Radio, KRWG and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
815-RADAR Observes a Binary PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
814-Threat of Solar Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Eruption, Credit: NASA
Solar storms on our home planet occur when bursts of visible, ultraviolet and other photons hit our atmosphere and/or streams of energetic particle...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
240829: THINK: Decoding the Secret Language of Animals, 8/29/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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THURSDAY, 8/29 Did you know dolphins call each other by name? Krys Boyd talks with a zoologist about new research into how animals communicate.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:54
813-RADAR Observations of Close Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
811-Martian Meteorite Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2024 By Degrees Climate Summit: How Local Communities are Planning for the Future
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
2024 By Degrees Climate Summit: Rising Tide of Solutions-Based Journalism
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
808-Global Auroras on Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ultraviolet View of Mars from MAVEN Satellite , Credit: NASA
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar corona...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
803-Monster NEO
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Sky Dancer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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There’s this elusive bird found throughout the Great Lakes region. If you know where to look, you can often spot it where fields and wetlands meet....

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 07:46
Birds of Paradise
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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Alison Világ pays attention for a living. She counts migrating ducks at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, near Paradise, Michigan. It's key to gett...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:27
802-Bok Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telesc...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2024-06-07 Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Summer means peak wildfire season. And recently, we’ve seen some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded history. For years the message arou...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
240607 : Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire, 6/7/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Summer means peak wildfire season. And recently, we’ve seen some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded history. For years the message arou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Season 1, Episode 44 - 'Maintaining Monkeys' feat Andrea Dempsey
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Exploring the fight to save monkeys from extinction with Andrea Dempsey

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

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  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
240426: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Amiee Boulanger, 4/26/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Season 1, Episode 34 - 'Ecological Civilization' feat Dr Philip Clayton
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
792-Closest Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY
P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
788-100 Years of Wilderness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10