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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 KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Who speaks for the trees? - We travel to the Brazilian Amazon, where the forest is disappearing at an alarming rate and...

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


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: High time to act - There's tension in the air in Bosnia and Herzegovina – especially older people who've lived through th...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Lives at stake: Baka people in Cameroon, lithium mining in Nevada and industrial fishing in Sierra Leone - Around the wor...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Earth Day, eco activists on TikTok and nuclear energy post-Chernobyl - In this episode of Living Planet, we hear about some of the different way...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's show: Joy, as England emerges from a three month lockdown. Serbia wins friends by vaccinating its neighbours. Why Turkey's reliance on...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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This week on the show: Trees are often seen as something to be chopped down for economic gain or cleared to make way for development. But without ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Fossil fuel's last gasp? - As more countries seek to phase in renewable energies, coal retains a firm grip in many par...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Sustainability & the city - We're taking a look at our cities. From our food systems to transportation and urban plannin...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Conflict, hope and a dangerous national park - Why environmental protection clashes with local people in the DRC - and w...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: we examine personal choice in relation to CO2 emissions and other environmental issues. What changes have we made in our h...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...

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  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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This week on the show: Not so fantastic We're taking a look at our plastic world — from the oceans, to its place in our homes, to its original s...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Invasion of species - East Africa is dealing with the worst locust infestation in decades. No one knows why millions ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This week on the show: Green protests, greener clubs As a global phenomenon, it's no wonder that climate change's impacts can be felt in our work...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10