{"podcast":{"title":"Travelers In The Night","slug":"travelers-in-the-night-1048610","podcast_index_feed_id":1048610,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1335265/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://travelersinthenight.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/80c14f73da04cdff5cfaef4dcc1c596f.jpg","author":"Albert D. Grauer","episode_count":1000,"summary":"A real \"Science Snack\" for anyone who is interested in the extraterrestrial. Dr. Al Grauer is a member of the Catalina Sky Survey which has led the world in near Earth asteroid discoveries for 17 of the past 19 years. The music is \"Eternity\" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact Aliens","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:18:51.297654+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610"},"episode":{"title":"892-140m-asteroids","slug":"892-140m-asteroids","published_at":"2026-03-27T16:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/892-140m-asteroids","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/892-140m-asteroids--70071154","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70071154/892_140m_asteroids.mp3","summary":"Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and track 90% of the 1 km sized asteroids capable of effecting local mass destruction as well as global disruption of agriculture and other human activities. This goal has been accomplished. In 2005 Congress extended the mandate to require NASA to detect and track 90% of the 140-m asteroids capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.","meta_description":"Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and track…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/episodes/892-140m-asteroids/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/892-140m-asteroids.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}