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Lead - The Pernicious Poison
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Doug and Patti speak with "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1
815-RADAR Observes a Binary PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
809-How Close Can An Asteroid Approach
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of Earth and an Asteroid , Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Science of Violence
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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After the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
804-Tracie’s Solo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Of Earth And An Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Eco Report - June 21, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's feature report, WFHB News Correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, Kade Young and Madison Stratton investigate Indiana's efforts t...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:38
803-Monster NEO
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

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  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
783--Kacper’s Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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773-Discovery and Recovery
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA
New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
766 Korean Asteroid Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Korean Asteroid Hunting Telescope, Credit: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
The Catalina Sky Survey and the Korean teams of asteroid hunters will discover and track Earth approaching objects making the residents of our home...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
757-Alien Signals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A hypothetical alien craft transmits radio signals into space. Scientists are on the hunt for signals like these., Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar
Project Breakthrough Listen is spending $100 million over 10 years so that radio telescopes can search for signals which may indicate extraterrestr...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10