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811-Martian Meteorite Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

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


  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

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


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
399-Moons of Florence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
390-One in 100,000
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Additional observations over the years have eliminated the possibility that Apophis will strike the Earth as it streaks by closer than the communic...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
352-Worth Tracking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 400 foot diameter space rock's path could bring it to within an Earth diameter of the surface of our planet.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
346-Arctic Ice
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The polar ice caps are the smallest in recorded history.

Bought by KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
344-Gnats
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Small asteroids swarm about the Earth in its orbit around the Sun like gnats around an outdoor light in the summer time.

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


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
342-That's Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid, which could pass under a basketball hoop, missed the Earth by about 9,000 miles.

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
299-Sporadic Geysers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted geysers erupting from Jupiter's Moon Europa.

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


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
292-Disintegrating Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a disintegrating comet 67 million miles from us.

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


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8