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
454-Comets and Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the ot...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
453-HAMMER
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
452-Small But Deadly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
451-Going Far
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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450-Saint Patrick's Day Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Saint Patrick's Day I discovered a comet which I share with my wife Annie Grauer.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
449-Cloud 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
448-Two PHA's
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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447-Nuking An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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446-Asteroid Homestead
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orb...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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445-Not So Secret
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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444-Near Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
443-Unsung Heroes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
442-Brian's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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441-Carson's Pair
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was observing, in the constellation Lynx, with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona , when wit...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
440-Tracking Elon's Car
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
438-Bright Darkness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most of the humans on planet Earth have never witnessed that the natural night sky is not dark; but rather it is alive with it's own lights. See fo...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
437-Christmas Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teamm...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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436-Lonely Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The lonely asteroids which travel high above and far below most of the other members of our solar system may be made out of very strong materials a...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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435-Number 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid Hunter, Alex Gibbs, discovered a comet on one of it's rare visits to our neighborhood.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7

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