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726-Close Space Rocks(514)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception:Small Impacting Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet i...

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


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
725-Mtn Ops(513)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Telescopes Mt. Lemmon, AZ, Credit: CSS/University of Arizona
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
724-Aten(512)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is fa...

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


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
723-Very Close One(510)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Exploding Fireball Meteor, Credit: NASA
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
720-Large PHA(506)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
719-What A Night(505)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's Conception Benu and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
718-Vulcan(504)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Don Davis (University of Florida)
In the fictional Star Trek series, Vulcan, Spock's home planet was imagined to orbit the A component of the triple star system 40 Eridani [Eri-dani...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
717-Fulls II(503)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space....

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
716-Pair of PHAs(502)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida and Gaspra, Credit: NASA
Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The re...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
715-Carson’s Night(501)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Asteroid and Earth, Credit: ESA
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
714-Why Look(500)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ida, Credit: NASA
What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
713-Oppy(499)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opportunity Rover, Credit: NASA
The NASA Mars Opportunity Rover, nicked named Oppy by those who operate and love it ,was designed to last 90 days on the Martian surface but has co...

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


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 18
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The fifth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
712-Tiny Traveler(498)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
711-First One(497)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: HST-Galaxies, Credit: NASA
Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Science unscripted 08/30/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: End of August

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
709-Catching Asteroids(495)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Chariklo, Credit: NASA
It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Science unscripted 08/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: With Artemis about to launch, we need to ask ourselves an important question: What do we actually want for our moon?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 08/25/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: we hear about how different groups around the world are fighting back: Mexican women helping American women with their unwa...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 08/02/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We were so overwhelmed by your emails we could hardly keep your names straight!

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted DW 07/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: There's some pretty stunning news (some of it bad) about the drugs aimed at treating depression or obesity. Also, is it act...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 07/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (DW Spectrum) 07/12/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: This was it. This was the week where we got to see our universe in a way we've never seen it before. There's more to this e...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
701-Touching The Sun(487)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 06/28/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The need for CHAOS (and an electric tongue)

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1

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