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700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Can you put your recycling and trash in one bin?
From: Possibly
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Imagine if you didn’t have a recycling bin anymore- You just put everything in the trash, but somehow the reusable stuff still got recycled? Some p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
694-Comet Catalina(479)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Can the grid handle charging lots of electric cars?
From: Possibly
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Last week, we broke down the basics of how our electric grid works. Today, we're tackling a more specific question. If we all switch over to elec...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
How does our electricity grid work?
From: Possibly
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With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
693-Comet Leonard III(478)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Christensen, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Can we build things with our plastic waste?
From: Possibly
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Today we’re taking a look at a fun way to be more aware of the amount of plastic we put into the world.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
How did bald eagles avoid extinction?
From: Possibly
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We cover a lot of heavy topics on this show, but today we’re bringing you a bright spot- a real success story. Bald eagles almost disappeared ab...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Hunting Lionfish to Save Reefs and Indigenous Sealife while Making Beautiful Jewelry
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Hunting Lionfish to Save Reefs and Indigenous Sealife while Making Beautiful Jewelry. Christine Raininger ” Lionfish Huntress” on protecting our r...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 1
Is it possible to turn my gas car into an electric vehicle?
From: Possibly
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Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
686-Big Atira(464)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short exposure image, which shows the asteroid clearly, and a long-exp, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Water is rising all around us. What should we do?
From: Possibly
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Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Should I ditch liquid detergent?
From: Possibly
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Today we’re answering a question from Cori Myers- she’s the sister-in-law of our founder Stephen Porder. She wants to know if the laundry detergent...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
What's the impact of buying flowers in the winter?
From: Possibly
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In the gray gloom of winter, I like to brighten up my house with a colorful bouquet of flowers. And I got to wondering, where do these pristine flo...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Are some teas more environmentally-friendly than others?
From: Possibly
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It’s cold outside, so you might be reaching for a warm cup of tea more often. That has us here at Possibly wondering: are some teas more environmen...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Can we trust electric car batteries?
From: Possibly
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In recent episodes, we’ve talked a lot about electric cars, but we haven’t really spent time talking about what makes them work- the battery. What ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10