{"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":"895-Tracking Space Junk","slug":"895-tracking-space-junk","published_at":"2026-04-17T16:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/895-tracking-space-junk","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/895-tracking-space-junk--70071220","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70071220/895_tracking_space_junk.mp3","summary":"According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which can track space junk in the atmosphere and provide the starting location and altitude for tracking clouds of environmentally problematic toxic chemical and/or nuclear contaminants released by the disintegration of reentering spacecraft.","meta_description":"According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which can…","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/895-tracking-space-junk/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-1048610/895-tracking-space-junk.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}