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814-Threat of Solar Storms

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Solar storms on our home planet occur when bursts of visible, ultraviolet and other photons hit our atmosphere and/or streams of energetic particle...

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813-RADAR Observations of Close Approachers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA

Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

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812-The Bennu Files I

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid Bennu, Credit: NASA/U. Arizona

A recent scientific paper characterizes the 123 grams of the regolith or surface material from the asteroid Bennu which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecra...

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Bogus Earth Theories

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

The Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, Expanding Earth and more, oh my! Come along with us today as we look at some suspect theories about our home planet.

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 77

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

Episode 5 from Mending the Hoop.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

811-Martian Meteorite Hunters

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

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810-Humans Can

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: James Webb Space Telescope, Credit: NASA

The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST for short is a superb scientific instrument which is revolutionizing our understanding of the structure of t...

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808-Global Auroras on Mars

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Ultraviolet View of Mars from MAVEN Satellite , Credit: NASA

When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar corona...

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807-Moon Orbit Crossers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA

During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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806-Distant PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Radar Image Toutatis, Credit: NASA

It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m ...

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803-Monster NEO

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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802-Bok Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telesc...

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800-Telescope Reborn

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI

In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

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Branding Wyoming Part 1: Cathy Holman - Episode 3

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Beyond the Range

Cathy shares her story of growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moving to Wyoming with dreams of marrying a cowboy- which came true by way of a ch...

796-COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), Credit: skylive.com

On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzcho...

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795-Spiral Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Nucleus of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Credit: Jan Erik Vallestad

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscov...

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794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

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Not Buying Into Food Woo

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.

793-Close Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists conception space rock and Earth, Credit: PIXABAY

Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 wil...

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Breaking the Boom and Bust Cycle - Episode 2 W/ Dr. Jason Shogren

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Beyond the Range

In episode 2 we sit down and chat with Dr. Jason Shogren to teach us about economics and economic diversification in the 21st century. Dr. Shogren ...

792-Closest Approaching Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY

P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

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791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare meteorite class called Aubrite, Credit: SETI

It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown astero...

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