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


  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

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


  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
793-Close Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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
792-Closest Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
790-Vivian’s Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M
My new Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Vivian Carjaval was scheduled for three 13h long winter nights for her first solo observing run on our Schmidt ...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Catch: Of Cod and Country
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Constant Wonder - Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
A belief in elves–or in the possibility of elves–could change the way we care for our planet.

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
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.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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
758-Weird Supernova
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Earth and a Small Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the ener...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
2023-07-07 Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Piece image
The last several years have seen a big increase in the number of lawsuits focused on the climate crisis. Some lawsuits challenge governments for th...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
230707: 2023-07-07 Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court, 7/7/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last several years have seen a big increase in the number of lawsuits focused on the climate crisis. Some lawsuits challenge governments for th...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
721-Eric’s Night(507)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Getty Images
Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may ha...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6