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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...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRWG, KICI Iowa City, and KKRN


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
788-100 Years of Wilderness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
780-Scary Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KGLP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
772-M31 Our Neighbor's Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Andromeda, Unexpected, Credit: Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty
Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda won the 10,000 British pound Astronomer P...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
770- Hycean Worlds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)
Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

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


  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
769-Green Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura), Credit: Trevinca-Skies on Spain
Given the effects of climate change today who can predict what planet Earth will be like when C/2023 P1(Nishimura) comes back near our home planet...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
767- A Really Tough Customer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
The more we learn about 322P/SOHO the stranger it becomes.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/01/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 03/02/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Are there COVID-19 vaccines that don't require a needle? How, exactly, do feelings of boredom affect the spread of the coro...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/12/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We are told that contagious mutations of Sars-CoV-2 have ushered in a new phase in the pandemic. How important are anti-vir...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
617-One to Track
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

Bought by KENW, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/08/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: "rapid tests" are on the way, but how — and where — will we actually get our hands on them? Also, why countries in Africa h...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
591-Teddy's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
583-A Woman and Pluto
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
566-October Fest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
544-Missing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
535-Alone Or Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7