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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
320-WOW What A Ride
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Riding the surface of the asteroid that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski recently discovered would be an incredible experience.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 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
318-Caves of Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
317-Psyche Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Psyche is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and is composed of almost pure nickel-iron metal.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
315-See Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2017 will be a good year to view comets with your unaided eye or a pair of binoculars.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Ted Conover and “Immersion. A Writer’s Guide To Going Deep”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Ted has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, and sliced beef in a meat-packing plant. Considered the master o...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
313-Martian Motherlode
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using ground penetrating RADAR on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have discovered an ice deposit on Mars the size of New Mexico.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
309-Tiny Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
307-Stepping It Up
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunting competition.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sy Montgomery, author of "The Soul of an Octopus"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Sy Montgomery about her book “The Soul of an Octopus, A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness.”

  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
Gus' Wild Side: He is the walrus
From: WTIP
Series: Gus' Wild Side: Stories from Minnesota and Beyond
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In this edition of Gus' Wild Side, we learn about the marbled murrelet....and also hear about Gus and his wife's encounter with a biologist who see...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:52
306-Egg Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Rover discovers a meteorite on Mars.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
304-Close One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tracking a small asteroid as it makes a very close approach to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
303-CRASH
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling to Mars is a risky business.

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
298-Rosetta
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Rosetta spacecraft visited a comet and obtained interesting unique data and images.

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
297-White Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Millions of children will never see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking across the night sky.

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
296-Tilted History
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Where you are from and where you live has been influenced by changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to its orbit around the Sun.

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
293-From Luna
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A rock blasted from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet may be on its way to Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Wine Glass that Levitates
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: Levitating Wine Glass
We discuss the 16 Wine Rules when traveling to France with our French Panel. We also speak with the creator of The Levitating CUP, the wine glass ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
286-Neighboring World
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have discovered an Earth sized planet orbiting the closest star to our Sun.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
285-Mars Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars is more likely to be hit by a space rock than is an equal sized area on planet Earth.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
284-Dark Trails
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR. Researchers are using ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
283-Micro-Astronomy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Ev...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
281-Starlight Walking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Experience the age old sense of wonder which happens when a human looks into deep space and thinks about what might be out there.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9