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From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ when...

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

815-RADAR Observes a Binary PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL

RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

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

809-How Close Can An Asteroid Approach

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artist’s conception of Earth and an Asteroid , Credit: Texas A&M/NASA

The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KCHW, Raven Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more

805-Very Close Misses

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth...

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

804-Tracie’s Solo

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

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

Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part II

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our discussion with Middle East expert Juan Cole of the University of Michigan. In this episode, ...

798-Destination Enceladus

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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

Juan Cole: Israel, Gaza and Campus Protests, Part I

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Pro-Palestinian student protests are erupting on college campuses all over the country, often resulting in aggressive responses from local law enfo...

797-Recoveries

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid 2014 JO25, Credit: NASA Goldstone RADAR

It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounte...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more

785-Secret Asteroid Mission

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

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

778-Two Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)

Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

Bought by KCHW, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., WTIP, KKRN and more

Nithin Coca: The Impacts of Plant-Based Meats

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

The new generation of veggie burgers do taste more like meat than their sawdust-leaning predecessors. And most agree that plant-based meat alternat...

Daniel Pye on the "Protecting Our Planet" Challenge

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Backed by some of the world’s wealthiest people like Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, the Protecting our Planet (POP) campaign has a mission to en...

Jeff Stoike: Blue Action Lab

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

As the winter chill of February continues to prickle the skin, the warm tides of the Bahamas may sound particularly appealing. This week on Sea Cha...

Philip Jacobson: The Fight To Stop Shark Finning

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

If you were a kid in the 1970s, you undoubtedly were at least a little terrified of going into the ocean - a fear placed squarely in your subconsci...

Shifting Sands: Juan Cole on Middle East Climate Woes

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...

And That’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Bob Berwyn on European Glacier Melt

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Ice caps, or the apex of glaciers, are delicate things. As the earth warms, they respond by rapidly thawing into their oceanic homes. This week on ...

Within Our Grasp: Sharman Apt Russell on Childhood Malnutrition

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Sharman Apt Russ...

Eriel Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

The list of crimes committed in the name of so called “progress” includes modern offenses such as the Trump Administration’s effort to sell off Nat...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

631-Greg's Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City and more

Joe Brewer: Farms of the Future

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

For environmentalists “agriculture” can be something of a dirty word, associated with other words such as, pesticides, water consumption, pollutant...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

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