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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...

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

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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 KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KECG, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KVSC, WJCU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Artists conception space rock and Earth, Credit: PIXABAY
Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 wil...

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY
P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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 KUGS Bellingham, Wash., Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
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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 Radio Kansas and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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 KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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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]


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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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 Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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 Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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 RADIOLEX, WTIP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Raven Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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 Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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World in Progress - Changing cities in Latin America: Medellin and Prospera (RERUN)

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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 KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., WTIP, KKRN, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was sign...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Did climate change start with the industrial revolution, or was it earlier than that? And how can the story of an everyday spice help us better und...

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


  • Added: Nov 23, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3