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789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

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


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
755-Geyser of Life-Maybe
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus spews water from cracks in its south polar crust., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a geyser of water vapor extending more than 80% of the Earth’s diameter erupting from Saturn’s moon ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
722-Close(509)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Asteroids Around Vega, Credit: NASA
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

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


  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
720-Large PHA(506)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
718-Vulcan(504)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Don Davis (University of Florida)
In the fictional Star Trek series, Vulcan, Spock's home planet was imagined to orbit the A component of the triple star system 40 Eridani [Eri-dani...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
717-Fulls II(503)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space....

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
715-Carson’s Night(501)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Asteroid and Earth, Credit: ESA
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
712-Tiny Traveler(498)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, WTIP, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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


  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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 KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
627-Toughest Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
621-Morning Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
618-Tremendous Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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


  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10