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 6,000 PRX free purchases as well as more than 807,000 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.


790 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Asteroid hunters find find 5 large asteroids in our neighborhood. Fortunately none of them is on a collision course with planet Earth.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A large dark asteroid becomes a beautiful comet as it approaches the Sun.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The building blocks of life can form in deep space. From there asteroids and comets bring them to Earth.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The best preserved meteorite on Earth was analyzed and found to contain the building blocks of life.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The NEOShield project is an international group of scientists and engineers who are developing techniques to protect us from Earth impacting objects.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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What was designed to be a 3 month mission has turned out to be a fascinating exploration of our next door neighbor.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The NASA Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. It is the way all of our spacecraft phone home.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The Hubble Space Telescopes finds a surprising lack of water on three planets outside of our solar system.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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SpaceShipTwo will carry 6 passengers and two pilots and be launched from the 18,000 acre SpacePort America in New Mexico.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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High speed debris from comets may pose a threat to our spacecraft.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Men may be from Mars but women are exploring it.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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By looking at a star as one of its planets passes in front of it, astronomers are able to learn about its atmosphere.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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NASA is planning a new Mars rover which will be based on the successful Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity Mars rovers. It will be able to directl...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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What would a space alien receive if it pointed its radio antennas towards our Sun?

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Strong radio and TV transmissions from Earth will probably fade as human communications switches to satellites and fibers. Perhaps the way to dete...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Humans have become used to having artificial Earth satellites. The close passage of a comet or a mega solar flare could disable them.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Astronomers have discovered a planet, twice as old as the Earth, at the right distance from its Sun to harbor life.

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The Rosetta Spacecraft's arrival at a comet's nucleus has begun a process of discovery.

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Rocks from the Moon can end up on the surface of the Earth and be worth more than diamonds or gold.

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The small asteroid which entered the Earth's atmosphere and injured nearly 1500 people in February of 2013 had a history which can be traced back t...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7