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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 KKRN, Raven Radio, KRWG, KGLP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KGLP and more


  • 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...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • 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...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • 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...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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 ...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • 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...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • 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...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Season 1, Episode 11 - 'Doughnut Economics' feat Rob Shorter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
Piece image
Imagine an economy that works for everyone.

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 5
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

Bought by KCHW, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
780-Scary Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
778-Two Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

Bought by KCHW, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by KCHW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
730-Busy Night(518)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images
On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
721-Eric’s Night(507)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Getty Images
Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may ha...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1