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392-Dragon Delivers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
389-Tiny Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
384-Flying By
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid tests planetary defenses.

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
382-Martian Debris
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Martian Trojan asteroids appear to have been created by a tremendous impact early in the history of the solar system.

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


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
379-Flying Mud Balls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
377-Insider
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
368-Asteroid Alert
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
353-Backwards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2 mile diameter object bucks the solar system traffic by traveling in a direction backwards to all of the planets.

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


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
350-Asteroid Defense
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
345-364 Days
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid orbits the Sun in less than a year.

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
341-Ballooning To Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A ride under a balloon can give you several hours to enjoy the wonders of the Earth and its curvature against the back drop of space.

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
340-Carson's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the distant future, Carson's first comet discovery is likely to impact a planet or be ejected from the solar system.

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
339-No Need To Smile
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The company called Planet has 149 satellites orbiting the Earth which are imaging the Earth's entire land area every day.

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
338-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A spacecraft will be launched to visit a small metal world whose composition is likely to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars on today's market.

Bought by WTIP, KRWG, KUPR low power FM, KREV-LP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
333-Whoppers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids are out there for asteroid hunters to find.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW, Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
324-Newborn Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are able to view the rare occurrence of planets in formation with the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KUPR low power FM, KENW, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
323-Big Splash
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid impacting into the ocean would create a big splash but not a tsunami.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KUPR low power FM, KENW, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
321-Dangerous Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humanity should be ready in the unlikely but potentially catastrophic situation in which a comet comes out of nowhere and is heading for planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
319-Lost and Found
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters rediscover and object first observed 15 years ago. It might be a candidate for mining in the future as space colonists look for r...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
314-Our Number
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely unlikely scenario of an impactor with our number on it.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
313-Martian Motherlode
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using ground penetrating RADAR on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have discovered an ice deposit on Mars the size of New Mexico.

Bought by KRWG, Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
312-200 Yards of Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid which can come to within about an Earth circumference of the surface of our home planet needs watching.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
308-Planning For Impact
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Planning for the unlikely event that an asteroid is on a collision course with planet Earth will minimize injury and the loss of life.

Bought by Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, KRWG and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
307-Stepping It Up
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunting competition.

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


  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
306-Egg Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Rover discovers a meteorite on Mars.

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7