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225-Greg Scores
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey team mate Greg Leonard finds an interesting potentially hazardous asteroid.

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
224-Aten Ahead
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A potentially hazardous asteroid may be a source of raw materials for future space settlers.

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


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
223-Back Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A mysterious piece of space hardware comes back to Earth.

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


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
222-A Haul
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered a very diverse group of 566 Earth approaching objects.

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


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
220-Deuce
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The NASA NEOWISE satellite discovers comets by their infrared thermal glow.

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


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
219-Zero
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A small asteroid's path around the Sun very nearly crosses that of Earth.

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


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
218-Still Out There
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Unknown large dangerous Earth approaching asteroids are still out there.

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


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
217-How Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Earth approaching asteroids are found by their motion in the sky.

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


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
215-Blinky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A rapidly spinning asteroid comes close to both the Earth and our Moon.

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
216-Blinky Revealed
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An Earth approaching asteroid is found to triple in brightness every 9 minutes.

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
214-Jupiter's Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The giant planet Jupiter has its own family of comets orbiting our Sun.

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


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
213-Great Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A dozen Earth approaching asteroid candidates are discovered in a single night.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
212-Dead Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A potentially hazardous dead comet makes a close approach to Earth.

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


  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
211-Smoking Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Humans have discovered oceans of liquid salty water on four small worlds in our solar system. Could living things be flourishing in these alien en...

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


  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
209-Stretch Marked Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Mars is in the process of turning a moon into a ring.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Wifi
From: The World According to Sound
Series: The World According to Sound
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Being surrounded by invisible streams of data.

Bought by KALW, KVNF, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 4
208-Hot Lunation
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My team the Catalina Sky Survey discovers 89 new Earth approaching objects in 24 nights.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
207-Carbon Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Comets may have brought the life enabling element Carbon to our planet.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
206-Stealthy Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The NASA NEOWISE satellite has discovered a family of dark, stealthy asteroids some of which make close approaches to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
205-Toy Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An asteroid small enough to fit under a basketball hoop makes frequent approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Mars.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Robot (fiction)
From: LN Lurie
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A girl tries to finish her father's work. After 15 years, she has a breakthrough!

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
203-Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A rare very large Earth approaching object is discovered in an unusual place in the sky.

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
202-Martian Purity
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Humans must be very careful not to introduce any of Earth's organisms into the Martian environment.

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
201-Frequent Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A small asteroid about the size of a U-Haul moving truck makes frequent visits to our part of the solar system.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
199-Space Boomerang
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A space boomerang meets its fate in a collision with the Earth about 60 miles off of the coast of Sri Lanka producing a bright, but harmless light ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5

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