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357-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About 16% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than 600 feet in diameter have orbiting companions. How do we defend against such a complex obj...

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


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
356-Seeds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Researchers: Asian Mental Health Stigma Creates Barrier to Treatment
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The month of May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. According to the Indiana University Newsroom, roughly 2,800 Chinese student...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 07:31
354-Returnee
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What had appeared as a solitary point of light returns to near Earth to reveal that it is two asteroids in a tight dance.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
353-Backwards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2 mile diameter object bucks the solar system traffic by traveling in a direction backwards to all of the planets.

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  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
351-Another Close One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the span of 32 days asteroid hunters discovered two small space rocks which passed between the Earth's surface and the communications satellities.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
350-Asteroid Defense
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
345-364 Days
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

Bought by KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
341-Ballooning To Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A ride under a balloon can give you several hours to enjoy the wonders of the Earth and its curvature against the back drop of space.

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and KRWG


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
340-Carson's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the distant future, Carson's first comet discovery is likely to impact a planet or be ejected from the solar system.

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
339-No Need To Smile
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The company called Planet has 149 satellites orbiting the Earth which are imaging the Earth's entire land area every day.

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
338-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A spacecraft will be launched to visit a small metal world whose composition is likely to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars on today's market.

Bought by WTIP, KRWG, KUPR low power FM, KREV-LP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Life of the Law #104: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: addiction, alexander kim, canada, cited podcast, Crosstown Clinic, Dave Murray, diacetylmorphine, Dianne Tobin, fentanyl, gordon katic, Health Canada, Helsinki declaration, heroin, heroin addiction treatment, Kevin Thompson, legal heroin, NAOMI, NPA, over, Credit: Travis Lupick
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 48:30
335-DART
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Testing a way to deflecting an incoming asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth.

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
334-Last 19 hours
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have the ability to find small space rocks before they explode in our atmosphere and maybe even to tell you where to find pieces o...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
333-Whoppers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The United Nations and the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: A WORLD OF BLUE: Preserving the Ocean, Safeguarding the Planet, and Ensuring Human Well-Being in the Context of the 2030 Agenda. February 13 & 14, 2017. United Nations General Assembly, New York City
On February 13th and 14th Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, will be in New York City to moderate a United Nations Inter-Parliam...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
325-Marrakech
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An observatory near Marrakech, operated remotely from France and Switzerland, is discovering new members of our solar system.

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
324-Newborn Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are able to view the rare occurrence of planets in formation with the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
323-Big Splash
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid impacting into the ocean would create a big splash but not a tsunami.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
322-Dust Stories
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tiny messengers from outer space enter our atmosphere every day.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
321-Dangerous Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humanity should be ready in the unlikely but potentially catastrophic situation in which a comet comes out of nowhere and is heading for planet Earth.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
319-Lost and Found
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters rediscover and object first observed 15 years ago. It might be a candidate for mining in the future as space colonists look for r...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
314-Our Number
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely unlikely scenario of an impactor with our number on it.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6

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