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496-Boomer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 08/03/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on Living Planet: how much is too much? Just how many visitors are too many? The Greek island of Santorini struggles with tourism number...

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


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
482-Botswana Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

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


  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
476-Lost Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After tha...

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 06/29/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: “Sisters are doin’ it!” - Women in Saudi Arabia made the headlines this week. They are now allowed to drive, thanks not least ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
473-Ryugu Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is conducting a six year flight from Earth to a potentially hazardous asteroid, Ryugu, and return a sample ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, Bandon Community Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
471-Botswana Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
469-Flying Couch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My birthday present from outer space was the opportunity to use the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Az to discover a tiny ...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Living Planet 06/08/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Building eco-metropolises - Ever more people in the world are living in urban areas. But how can we make our cities sustainable? ...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 05/25/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Spring cleaning - This week on the show. It's time for a bit of spring cleaning, whether it's your summer wardrobe, the local ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, WFIU, and KRZA


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
460-TESS
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KSFR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
457-30 Years of Fireballs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

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


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
456-Dangerous Trio
From: Albert 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 KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
455-17,000 to Go
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
454-Comets and Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 ot...

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 04/06/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Our edible footprint - This week on the show: From wine to maple syrup, some of our most-loved delicacies could be at risk from...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
445-Not So Secret
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

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


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
444-Near Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, KKRN, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
443-Unsung Heroes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
442-Brian's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
441-Carson's Pair
From: Albert 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 KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
438-Bright Darkness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
437-Christmas Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teamm...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
436-Lonely Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The lonely asteroids which travel high above and far below most of the other members of our solar system may be made out of very strong materials a...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WLPR , KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8