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
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Asteroid hunters have discovered two more asteroids which could become a threat to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A rock blasted from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet may be on its way to Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a disintegrating comet 67 million miles from us.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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An interesting object is spotted streaking across the night sky at the rate of 17 full moon diameters per day.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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A new comet is likely to have the characteristics of a really weird traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Astronomers have discovered an Earth sized planet orbiting the closest star to our Sun.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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A given piece of ground on Mars is more likely to be hit by a space rock than is an equal sized area on planet Earth.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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After a meteor is no longer visible to the human eye it leaves a dark trail which can be followed by Doppler Weather RADAR. Researchers are using ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Ev...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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NASA's Space Launch System Core Stage will start a new age of space exploration,

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Experience the age old sense of wonder which happens when a human looks into deep space and thinks about what might be out there.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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On a dwarf planet, ice volcanos appear to have shaped the surface of Ceres.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Our world is undergoing an alarming warming.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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This is the story of the big one that got away.

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Imagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring o...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still out there.

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Astronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9