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From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

468-Peek A Boo Asteroid

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.

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

Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222 (Encore)

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL

444-Near Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

443-Unsung Heroes

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

442-Brian's Debut

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

436-Lonely Asteroids

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

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

433-Tiniest Space Rock

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in ou...

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

431-Tough Space Rocks

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Some very tough asteroids regularly pass closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury and may contain valuable materials such as phosphorus, antimony,...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , WVBI-LP and more

426-Rose Rules Again

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Rose discovers 8 new interesting asteroids in a single night using the Catalina Sky Survey's Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, WTIP and more

425-Greg's Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN and more

Durable Future: Bill McKibben #115 (Encore)

From: Citizen-Powered Media

Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...

Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113 (Encore)

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KTRL

398-Mars Rocks

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

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

395-House Sized Space Rocks

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

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

391-Finding Spacerocks

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Finding a meteorite that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach it's present location is exciting. It might even be worth real money.

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

Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107 (Encore)

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KTRL

379-Flying Mud Balls

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large aster...

Bought by KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more

377-Insider

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

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

Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL

Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science – Kate Raworth #220

From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth

Human civilization can thrive while living within sensible limits imposed by a finite system. “Renegade economist” Kate Raworth manages to tell the...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL