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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Take a trip to view the far side of the Moon.

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Amazingly, a tough organism found in Antartica on planet Earth has adapted to Mars like conditions.

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Reports that soon an asteroid will strike the Earth producing catastrophic damage are false. What is true is that one will come incredibly close t...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Asteroid hunters have discovered an object, which with limited data, appears likely to come close to the Earth in 2081.

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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New research has revealed a truly mind boggling number of potentially habitable locations in the Universe.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A break in the monsoon weather pattern enabled the discovery of new Earth approaching objects.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Beneath it's frozen surface, Jupiter's largest moon may have conditions where life could exist.

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Will 100 million dollars in grant funds be enough for humans to discover a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack?

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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It is gratifying to see that an individual with modest equipment can make scientific discoveries.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Generally the more data one obtains on a Near Earth Object the less likely it is to strike Earth. This is a story of how this process works.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The repurposed WISE spacecraft has discovered a stealthy asteroid.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A small asteroid survives a close approach to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Comets have blazed a path to the stars for humans to follow.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The Flat Earth Society is being replaced by Climate Change Deniers.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Time spent under the natural night sky is one of the great joys of being human.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Rik Hill discovers two potentially hazardous asteroids on successive nights.

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Asteroids have been hauling water to our Moon and depositing it in places which are very handy for future human colonists.

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A space boomerang meets its fate in a collision with the Earth about 60 miles off of the coast of Sri Lanka producing a bright, but harmless light ...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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It is possible that showers of comets changed the course of life on Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5