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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
ChoZen Eco-Retreat & Sanctuary is on a Mission to Re-Wild and Reconnect Us to Our Planet Earth. Find out How, with Founder Tony Cho
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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ChoZen Eco-Retreat & Sanctuary is on a Mission to Re-Wild and Reconnect Us to Our Planet Earth. Find out How, with Founder Tony Cho

  • Added: Aug 23, 2024
  • Length: 27:04
812-The Bennu Files I
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Bennu, Credit: NASA/U. Arizona
A recent scientific paper characterizes the 123 grams of the regolith or surface material from the asteroid Bennu which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecra...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 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
The Rain Remembers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An afternoon monsoon in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
810-Humans Can
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: James Webb Space Telescope, Credit: NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST for short is a superb scientific instrument which is revolutionizing our understanding of the structure of t...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
809-How Close Can An Asteroid Approach
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of Earth and an Asteroid , Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
806-Distant PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Radar Image Toutatis, Credit: NASA
It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m ...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
805-Very Close Misses
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
When Fairyland Lost It's Magic
From: KALW
Caption: The cover for the book "When Fairyland Lost It's Magic," by Bijal Vachharajani, Credit: Photo courtesy of the author
Polar ice caps are melting. Huge swathes of the world are sweltering under record high temperatures. But how do you talk about climate change to ch...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
804-Tracie’s Solo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Of Earth And An Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 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
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
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

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  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Season 1, Episode 41 - 'Transformative Generation' feat Christabel Reed
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.

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  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:07
  • 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
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
797-Recoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid 2014 JO25, Credit: NASA Goldstone RADAR
It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounte...

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  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Summers of Discontent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Summer Fruits in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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
What is wilderness?
From: Possibly
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Last summer, our reporter Charlie Adams spent ten weeks working in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It’s a slice of northwest Montana that’s over one m...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 3
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9