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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...

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  • 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
Living Planet 08/30/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Deep Dive: The dirty truth about laundry. Our laundry routine impacts the environment with chemicals, microplastics, and energy use. Is our fear o...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Living Planet 08/16/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lessons from Germany’s ‘edible city’ on the Rhine The town of Andernach uses its public spaces to grow fruit and vegetables ...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Spilhaus World Ocean Map
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map based on the Spilhaus projection, developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. , Credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
2024-08-02 Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
240802: Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry, 8/2/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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
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
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
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
Living Planet 06/07/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Deep Dive: Where do all the flowers come from? Roses are red, cornflowers are blue. Most flowers are grown on a different continent, what’s it to y...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 05/31/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Deep dive - Reviving repair culture. We generate so much e-waste per year that we could easily fill enough garbage trucks to...

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  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
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
Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Juan Cole
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our discussion with Middle East expert Juan Cole of the University of Michigan. In this episode, ...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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
Living Planet 05/10/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet – Streams & Ripple podcast oil spill investigation interview. We take a moment to stop, appreciate, and ponder the humble stream. A...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Juan Cole
Pro-Palestinian student protests are erupting on college campuses all over the country, often resulting in aggressive responses from local law enfo...

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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
796-COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), Credit: skylive.com
On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzcho...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10