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731-Greg's Comet(519)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more

From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder

David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...

465-Returnee

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more

458-Large and Close

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more

455-17,000 to Go

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

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

453-HAMMER

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more

452-Small But Deadly

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN and more

451-Going Far

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more

449-Cloud 7

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more

447-Nuking An Asteroid

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more

448-Two PHA's

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more

433-Tiniest Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Bandon Community Radio and more

388-40 Years

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Your representatives, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are heading into deep interstellar space.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WOUB, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more

352-Worth Tracking

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A 400 foot diameter space rock's path could bring it to within an Earth diameter of the surface of our planet.

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

347-Your Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Holding an object older than any other rock on the ground which is billions of years old and has traveled an unimaginable distance to be with you w...

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

345-364 Days

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

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

337-Lucy

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The Lucy Spacecraft, named after the human fossil Lucy, will revolutionize our knowledge of the origins of our solar system.

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

333-Whoppers

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

Claudia Rowe discusses "The Spider and the Fly"

From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder

Claudia’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Women’s Day, the Huffington Post and The Stranger, among other magazines ...

323-Big Splash

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

An asteroid impacting into the ocean would create a big splash but not a tsunami.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KUPR low power FM, KENW, KRWG and more

316-Weird Centaur

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more