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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We are discovering many small asteroids which pass closer to us than the Moon. Very rarely one of them crashes into the Earth or Moon.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A small asteroid will make close approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Venus.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Small asteroids come close enough at the right speeds for us to visit them.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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The Jupiter Trojan asteroids can masquerade as near Earth Objects.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The successful unmanned test of the Orion Spacecraft is the beginning of a new chapter in the human exploration of space.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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NASA/JPL has developed a new computer program, based on software game architecture, which allows you to tour space using real NASA data.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal.

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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When will you be told about a potential asteroid impact?

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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The NASA New Horizons Spacecraft is on a voyage of discovery to the distant parts of our solar system.

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Asteroid hunters have discovered nearly 100 small objects which are accessible by astronauts.

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Green Meteors which have long been attributed to alien spacecraft or spy devices are in reality beautiful natural events.

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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2014 was a record year for the asteroid hunting community with more than 1,450 new objects being discovered.

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Ceres is a small dwarf planet in our solar system which contains a large proportion of water. NASA is about to begin to explore it.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The newest member of the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey team, Rose Matheny, discovers her first Earth approaching asteroid.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A new plan for a space trip to Mars will be able to deliver a steady stream of supplies to a human space colony on the red planet.

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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In less than three and a half hours 3 Potentially Hazardous asteroids were discovered.

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A large asteroid is discovered which can come as close as half the distance to the Moon from us.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A skyscraper sized Potentially Hazardous Asteroid is discovered when it was 50 million miles from us.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The mystery of life continues to pull us towards Mars.

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A good night of asteroid hunting along with the appearance of an unknown object.

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7