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666-Red Dwarf Planets(417)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Gliese 887C, Credit: Mark Garlick/ University of Göttingen
Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
665-Odd Ball(416)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Shattering, Credit: NASA
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Europa, Credit: NASA
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

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


  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
662-Earth's Pet Rock(408)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Eros, Credit: NASA
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
661-Roving Venus (400)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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


  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
660-Double Comet (403)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat observed At Kitt Peak, Credit: NASA
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
659-Martian Debris(382)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mars, Credit: NASA
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity a...

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


  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
657-Plant Companionship(407)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson happily displays the progress of the Advanced Astroculture experiment aboard the International Space Station in July 2002., Credit: NASA
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent sci...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
656-Moons of Florence(399)
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 KCHW, KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
652-Our Number(314)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the E...

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


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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


  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Top of Mind - Space Debris, Wilderness Survival, Robot Sweating
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 51:44
  • Purchases: 3
643-Space Vehicles
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: SpaceX Starship, Credit: SpaceX
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.

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


  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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


  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
640-Rocks or Rockets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a hu...

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


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
635-Exploring Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We are lucky to be alive in an age when anyone with an internet connection can participate in the exploration of Mars. Your unique brain-eye combi...

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
634-Meteor Goes Splat
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
On 28 February 2021 at 9:54PM a large slow moving fireball meteor was observed over England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The Wichcombe m...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
632-Couch Potato
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski is the first person in our group and perhaps the first person in the world to discover a potential...

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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
625-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the ...

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 15
620-Interstellar Travelers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
For millennia humans have gazed into the night sky and have dreamed of traveling to the stars. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ...

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


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
446-Asteroid Homestead
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, WVTF, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
403-Double Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A strange object consisting of two mile diameter asteroids surrounded by a gas cloud is orbiting our Sun.

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
402-Above Scotland
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The CubeSat industry is making relatively low cost exploration of space possible and is creating heretofore undreamed of opportunities for the hum...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6