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690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's concept of what binary asteroid 2017 YE5 might look like. The two objects showed striking differences in radar reflectivity, which could indicate that they have different surface properties., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 04/12/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
683-TESS(460)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/22/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Got omicron twice? - There is more than one kind of omicron. And data has just come out on whether you might get infecte...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
681-17,000 to Go(455)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
679-Hammer(453)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's illustration of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will crash into the asteroid Didymos., Credit: NASA/John Hopkins University/Cov
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
678-Greg's Comet(425)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
677-30 Years of Fireballs(457)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
675-Nuking An Asteroid(447)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception, Credit: Dan Durda
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/28/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The omicron numbers are already awful. Yet there's a case for cautious optimism based on what we've seen so far.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
674-Asteroid Homestead(446)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Mining, Credit: NASA
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
673-Christmas Comet(437)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey team...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
672-Meteor Whispers(427)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball Exploding, Credit: NASA
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/07/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Be honest: Do you find it harder to care about omicron than the variants before it? Also, how much info can be learned from...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
670-Laser Surfing(364)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Laser Sail, Credit: Project Breakthrough
Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
669-Seeds(356)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Voyager Leaving Solar System, Credit: NASA
What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them?

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
668-Dry Sands(420)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/02/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: COVID-19 vaccines are getting refined and retested as we speak — and in the meantime, why not start your day ⁠with an extr...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/19/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The evidence is in. Just by focusing your thoughts every day, you really can reduce the stress inside your body. Also, a wi...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Europa, Credit: NASA
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
663-Alien Rock?(409)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Illustration, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10