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556-Earthly Moon Rock
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a most amazing turn of events, an international team of astronomers have published research in the Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters w...

Bought by WTIP and KRWG


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
482-Botswana Fragment
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

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


  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
460-TESS
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
446-Asteroid Homestead
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

Bought by WTIP, KKRN, WVTF, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
444-Near Comets
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

Bought by KRWG, KKRN, KSFR, WTIP, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
443-Unsung Heroes
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

Bought by KRWG, KKRN, WTIP, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
442-Brian's Debut
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

Bought by KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
441-Carson's Pair
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was observing, in the constellation Lynx, with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona , when wit...

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
440-Tracking Elon's Car
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

Bought by WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
438-Bright Darkness
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most of the humans on planet Earth have never witnessed that the natural night sky is not dark; but rather it is alive with it's own lights. See fo...

Bought by WTIP, WLPR, KSFR, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
436-Lonely Asteroids
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The lonely asteroids which travel high above and far below most of the other members of our solar system may be made out of very strong materials a...

Bought by KRWG, WLPR, KSFR, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
435-Number 31
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid Hunter, Alex Gibbs, discovered a comet on one of it's rare visits to our neighborhood.

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
434-Biggest Space Rock
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The largest Earth approaching space rock, found by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2017, is 3,250 feet in diameter. One like it strikes the Earth every ...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
432-Close Space Rocks
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 17 space rocks that can come closer than the communication satellites to the surface of planet Earth. Fo...

Bought by WLPR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WVBI-LP, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
430-Deportee
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.

Bought by WTIP, WLPR, Bandon Community Radio, KKRN, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
428-Phaethon
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet.During it's close approac...

Bought by WLPR, Bandon Community Radio, KRWG, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
427-Meteor Whispers
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors pro...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
426-Rose Rules Again
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Rose discovers 8 new interesting asteroids in a single night using the Catalina Sky Survey's Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
423-Silent ET
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The hypothesis that Oumuamua, the interstellar space rock, is an alien probe is pretty farfetched, however, how it came to have it's current shape ...

Bought by WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
418-Fireball II
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A thousand meteors brighter than the planet Venus enter the Earth's atmosphere every day. The record of one of them on your dash cam can reveal whe...

Bought by WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KSFR, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
416-Odd Ball
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
415-Well Done
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A three football field sized asteroid survives on a harrowing path around our Sun.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
413-Fission Rocket
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To cut the mission time to Mars, the risks, and the mass of supplies required for such a prolonged space mission NASA is looking at alternative mea...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WLPR, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
408-Earth's Pet Rock
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN, and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
407-Plant Companionship
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3