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516-Space Weather
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide sp...

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


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Anteater Diet
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Giant Anteater, Credit: (Projeto Tamanduá/www.tamandua.org)
How giant anteaters get enough food into their tiny mouths to survive.

Bought by WTIP, WLPR, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
456-Dangerous Trio
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of only four days, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, Brian Africano, Alex Gibbs, and Greg Leonard, discovered three Potentially Hazard...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
439-Big and Close
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
438-Bright Darkness
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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
Coral Reef Plastic
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Piece image
Plastic garbage triggers disease in coral reefs.

Bought by WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
432-Close Space Rocks
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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
Robot Movement
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Piece image
Learning about how the human body moves from anatomically accurate humanoid robots.

Bought by WTIP and KENW


  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
418-Fireball II
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
414-Enormous Visitor
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The impact of a 1,200 foot diameter asteroid would produce devastating earth quakes and wind blasts over many square miles on the Earth's surface.

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
413-Fission Rocket
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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
400-Roving Venus
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
392-Dragon Delivers
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
387-Florence
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Florence is the largest asteroid in more than 100 years to approach the Earth.

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


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
385-Phoning Home
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
384-Flying By
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A small asteroid tests planetary defenses.

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
376-Active Asteroids
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some asteroids become comets giving rise to beautiful meteor showers.

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
367-Future Impactor
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 33 foot diameter asteroid has about a 1% chance of impacting the Earth in the distant future.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
353-Backwards
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2 mile diameter object bucks the solar system traffic by traveling in a direction backwards to all of the planets.

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


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
351-Another Close One
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the span of 32 days asteroid hunters discovered two small space rocks which passed between the Earth's surface and the communications satellities.

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
350-Asteroid Defense
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7