Travelers In The Night

Series produced by Albert Grauer

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Travelers In The Night is your unique source of insider Information from the Asteroid Hunting and Space Communities.
The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.

The PRX Series “Travelers In The Night” has more than 6,100 PRX free purchases as well as more than 811,000 downloads on the internet. It has been aired on 59 radio stations.


It features an engaging and informative series of two minute, factual episodes about asteroids, comets, spacecraft, and other objects in space.

The pieces are "evergreen" in that they are current but not dated.

The Travelers In The Night Pieces are written and produced by a member of the Catalina Sky Survey Team at the University of Arizona.

The Catalina Sky Survey has discovered nearly half of the Earth approaching objects known to exist.


794 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
21-The Kepler Spacecraft's Search for Earth Like Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Kepler Spacecraft has discovered that planets which are apparently similar to Earth exist outside of our solar system.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
22-Asteroid 2013 TV 135
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2013 TV135 is a potentially hazardous asteroid which at first appeared to be on a collision course with planet Earth. Subsequent observat...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
23-Capturing an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is planning an Asteroid Redirect Mission which will place a small asteroid in orbit about our moon. There it can be visited and studied by hum...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
24-Jupiter Friend or Foe
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter was once thought to provide a shield which has prevented impacts from objects in space. Modern calculations find that Jupiter sends some o...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
25-Fireballs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fireballs are meteors brighter than the Planet Venus.

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
26-Binary Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Binary asteroids are relatively common and would present a challenge if one of the were heading for Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
27-A Lucky Friday the 13th
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Friday the 13th of 2029 will be a lucky day for the Human race when the asteroid passes very near the Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
28-Finding An Asteroid for Astronauts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A prelude of a manned flyby of Venus and Mars could be a manned mission to an asteroid. The search for an appropriate asteroid continues.

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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29-An Odd Couple: Curiosity and The Maven Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Curiosity Rover and The Maven Spacecraft explore Mars and stir our imaginations.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
30-Asteroids On An Inside Track
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Only 13 out of the more than 10,000 Earth approaching objects have their orbit completely within that of the Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
31-A Gentle Breakup of an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid spins up, develops 6 tails, and breaks apart under the gentle influence of Sun light.

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid With A Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers are discovering that many asteroids have a peanut shape and that some have small moons.

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
33-A Busy Month In The Earth's Neighborhood
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In March of 2014 six asteroids which pass closer than our Moon to us were discovered. Fortunately none of them will impact the Earth anytime soon.

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
34-Number 5000
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The 5000th near Earth Asteroid found by the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey was published early in 2014. This group has discovered 47% of the Eart...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
35-An Asteroid With A Ring
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For hundreds of years the Saturn was the only planet known to have rings. Now we know that Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune also have rings. Recently ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
36-Earth And Moon As Evening Stars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A human standing on Mars would see the Earth and Moon as either a double morning or evening star. Recently the NASA Curiosity Rover took an image ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
37-Slow Movers At The Edge Of The Solar System
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two new objects have been discovered in what was once thought to be an empty region of our Solar System. They are so far from our Sun that they are...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
38-The Big Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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One million human lifetimes ago an asteroid impact was at least partially responsible for eliminating the dinosaurs. The asteroid hunting community...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
39-Dash Cams and the Anatomy of An Airburst
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Data obtained from automobile dash cams has enabled scientists to understand the airburst which occurred when a small asteroid entered the Earth's ...

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  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
40-Itokawa A Strange Space Peanut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Measurements of its rate of spin and shape reveal that the asteroid Itokawa has a very odd structure.

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  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7

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