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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

Living Planet 08/30/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Deep Dive: The dirty truth about laundry. Our laundry routine impacts the environment with chemicals, microplastics, and energy use. Is our fear o...

Bought by WXDU, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

812-The Bennu Files I

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Asteroid Bennu, Credit: NASA/U. Arizona

A recent scientific paper characterizes the 123 grams of the regolith or surface material from the asteroid Bennu which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecra...

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

Living Planet 08/16/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

This week on the show: Lessons from Germany’s ‘edible city’ on the Rhine The town of Andernach uses its public spaces to grow fruit and vegetables ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Spilhaus World Ocean Map

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Caption: The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map based on the Spilhaus projection, developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. , Credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS

Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

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2024-08-02 Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KALW and more

240802: Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry, 8/2/2024

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

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

806-Distant PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Radar Image Toutatis, Credit: NASA

It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m ...

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

Living Planet 06/07/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Deep Dive: Where do all the flowers come from? Roses are red, cornflowers are blue. Most flowers are grown on a different continent, what’s it to y...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and RadioFreePalmer

Living Planet 05/31/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

This week on the show: Deep dive - Reviving repair culture. We generate so much e-waste per year that we could easily fill enough garbage trucks to...

Bought by WXDU, Radio Kansas, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA

800-Telescope Reborn

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI

In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

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

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

Living Planet 05/10/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Living Planet – Streams & Ripple podcast oil spill investigation interview. We take a moment to stop, appreciate, and ponder the humble stream. A...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

796-COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), Credit: skylive.com

On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzcho...

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

Living Planet 04/26/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

This week on the show: The evolution of our plastic dependency. Plastics have only been around for a little over a century. But in that time, t...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and Radio Kansas

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 KCHW, Raven Radio, KGLP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more

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

Season 1, Episode 23 - 'Rainforest Trust' feat James Deutsch

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB

Living Planet 03/15/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

A deep dive into mining in Brazil. The Latin American country is the second largest exporter of iron ore in the world. The resource makes up a sub...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Living Planet 02/09/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

This week on the show: We need to talk about farmers and mental health.

Bought by WXDU, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

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

World in Progress 11/01/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Life-changing solutions. How one woman in Morocco is making waves in the fishing community, when she became the first woman ...

Bought by WFHB

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