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577-Comet Fuls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet P/2019 Y2 (Fuls) Imaged with the 40" telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona with bias rates equal to the comet motion. It is 4-60 second exposures co-added together. The stars appear as trails since the telescope was tracking the comet., Credit: Catalina Sky Survey/NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/University of Arizona
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a ta...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
576-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dispatch 320 - Bottle of Lies
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bottle of Lies book cover
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
575-Big, Dangerous, and Tough
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope ...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
574-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
572-David's Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
569-Fossil Ice
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recent findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests that there is more water locked in the minerals of nearby asteroids, whi...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
567-Close Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed throug...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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566-October Fest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
564-Heavy Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
563-Pre-Autumnal Harvest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a clear but windy night, near the fall equinox, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was able to discover and verify 23 new Earth approa...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
562-Monster Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
561-Hannes Is Back
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Abhijit Banerjee wins a Nobel!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Credit: Bryce Vickmark for news.mit.edu
Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
559-Farming On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Earth plants provide us with medicines, food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. In the future, in addition to providing treats like strawberries it ...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
556-Earthly Moon Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a most amazing turn of events, an international team of astronomers have published research in the Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters w...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7