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
121- Three Is A Mystery
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than one and a half hours, three small approaching asteroids with similar orbits are discovered by the telescopes of the Catalina Sky Survey.

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
122-This Comet Will Never Return
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A comet will pass our way once and then, perhaps a countless number of human lifetimes from now, become a comet in another solar system.

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
123-A New Discovery Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A seemingly unknown potentially hazardous asteroid is found to be an asteroid discovered 12 years ago.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
124-Great Shefford Observatory
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Observations from telescopes around the world are required to determine the path of Earth approaching objects.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
125-NASA RADAR Finds Asteroid Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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When what appeared to be a single moving point of light in the night sky made a close approach to Earth, NASA RADAR found it to be a small asteroid...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
126-Ready Yourself for Alien Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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How will humans react to the inevitable discovery of life outside of our planet?

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
127-Tied for Third
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comets are one of nature's most spectacular displays. They are in most cases named for their discoverer.

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
128-Buzzed By An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock comes unusually close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
129- A 3 City Block Sized Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid the size of three city blocks was spotted 50 million miles from Earth. Someday it will make a close approach to our planet.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
130-Things That Dim In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Objects in the Universe which dim instead of brighten have an interesting story to tell.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
131-Deafening Silence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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More than 50 years of searching for signals from alien civilizations has produced a deafening silence. My money is on the concept that there are m...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
132-Kowalski's Forever Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Kowalski's 12th comet is destined for a long cold journey till the end of time.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
133-2 Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two 50 foot diameter asteroids, which can make very close approaches to planet Earth, were discovered slightly more than a day apart.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
134-Recycling Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A number of malfunctioning spacecraft have been reprogrammed so that they can produce useful results.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
135-Future Impact Possibilities
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Three small asteroids are discovered which have the possibility of colliding with planet Earth in the far distant future.

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
136-The Oceans of Ganymede
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The largest satellite in our solar system, Ganymede, has more liquid water on its surface than is contained in Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes. ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
137-Bad Seeing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Earth's atmosphere make our life possible as well as keeping us from seeing objects in space clearly.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
138-An Inter-Planetary Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid visits the vicinity of both Earth and Mars.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
139-Next Step To Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is proposing that the next step towards the human exploration of Mars be a manned mission to an asteroid which has been placed into orbit arou...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
140-A Weird Orbit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which travel outside the plane of our solar system are likely to have been involved in a collision sometime in the past.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7

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