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786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

784-Josh’s Two PHAs

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more

783--Kacper’s Centaur

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE

Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

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

782-Probing The Cosmic Web

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)

In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WTIP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Raven Radio, KGLP and more

779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021

A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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

773-Discovery and Recovery

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA

New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

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

Making Peace with Our News Anxiety

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Danielle Preiss explores anxiety around the news with three guests who talk about how it may n...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and WRGY

706-Wonders to Behold(492)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more

681-17,000 to Go(455)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: NEO Surveyor will be based on NEOCam (above), a finalist in the previous round of the Discovery program, and will feature an infrared telescope to look for near Earth objects., Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL

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, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more

605-Monsoon Nights

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star

Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

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

602-Solar Flares

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

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

600-Big and Close

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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

580-Kacper's Debut

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On his first night of solo observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovere...

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

575-Big, Dangerous, and Tough

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope ...

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

563-Pre-Autumnal Harvest

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

On a clear but windy night, near the fall equinox, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was able to discover and verify 23 new Earth approa...

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

556-Earthly Moon Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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 KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more

Humane Policing

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

Conversation with both Darron Spencer, a former Colorado Sheriff's deputy and author of the book "Humane Policing" and Albuquerque Police officer S...

Bought by KVNF, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM

Episode 15- A Farewell to Holder

From: Shea Gunther

Kris Krane, Dan Goldman, and Adam Smith join host Kris Lotlikar to belatedly discuss the repercussions of Attorney General Eric holder stepping dow...