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398-Mars Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
397-Spotting Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of t...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
396-Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
395-House Sized Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
394-Tiny Beasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
393-Newest Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The moon cycle from new moon through full moon and back to new moon again was used by many nations to regulate their activities and forms the basis...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
391-Finding Spacerocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Finding a meteorite that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach it's present location is exciting. It might even be worth real money.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
390-One in 100,000
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Additional observations over the years have eliminated the possibility that Apophis will strike the Earth as it streaks by closer than the communic...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
389-Tiny Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
387-Florence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Florence is the largest asteroid in more than 100 years to approach the Earth.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KPIP-LP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
386-Interplanetary Sand Traps
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Topographic features on rubble pile asteroids are produced in a novel way.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
383-Moon Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Moon is water rich and can supply lunar colonists with many of their needs.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
382-Martian Debris
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Martian Trojan asteroids appear to have been created by a tremendous impact early in the history of the solar system.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
381-Peaceful Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
379-Flying Mud Balls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large aster...

Bought by KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
378-Moon Express
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Moon is a destination for human explorers.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WVTF, KKRN, WTIP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
377-Insider
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KRWG, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
375-Chelyabinsk Sized
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Small Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KENW, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
374-Brute
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still being discovered.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
373-Kepler's Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered more than 50 habitable Earth sized planets orbiting distant stars.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
372-Trappist-1 Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Trappist-1 solar system consists of a dim red star and 7 Earth sized planets. Humans are beginning to explore this fascinating new potentially ...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
371-2 Headed Space Worm
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
369-Finding Treasure
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Space miners can up their odds by prospecting with ground based telescopes.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
368-Asteroid Alert
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9