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618-Tremendous Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
616-100 Million Year Old Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia, Credit: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1370203
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
614-Rare Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
611-Aurora Mysteries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Auroral displays have been observed and reported on throughout human history. Data from NASA's 5 Themis (Themm us) satellites analyzed by powerfu...

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
610-Atmospheric Gravity Waves
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit: Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
608-Triple Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
607-Good Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artistic illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. , Credit: Image Credit: Dieter Spannknebel / Getty Images
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and ca...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
603-Discovering Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
595-Monster Comet C/2020 H2 (Pruyne)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
594-Earth Grazer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered that the Earth encounters many tiny asteroids as it zips around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Recently my Cata...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
593-Kacper's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
590- Noctilucent Clouds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
588-Encounter With Saturn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KSFR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
587-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
585-Mini Moon II
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope w...

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


  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
581-Planet Hunting
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
579-Martian Vacation
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
SpaceX's new rockets fuel the dream of visiting some of the planet Mars' unique and spectacular wonders. Today you can visit the NASA Mars Curiosit...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
577-Comet Fuls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet P/2019 Y2 (Fuls) Imaged with the 40" telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona with bias rates equal to the comet motion. It is 4-60 second exposures co-added together. The stars appear as trails since the telescope was tracking the comet., Credit: Catalina Sky Survey/NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/University of Arizona
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a ta...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
569-Fossil Ice
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recent findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests that there is more water locked in the minerals of nearby asteroids, whi...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10