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 812,000 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.


796 Pieces

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A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days.

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Combining Art and Science gives us a new way to appreciate the wonders of the Universe.

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Traveling to Mars is a risky business.

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Tracking a small asteroid as it makes a very close approach to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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A very close approaching asteroid is observed to pass through the Earth's shadow.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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The NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Rover discovers a meteorite on Mars.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Planning for the unlikely event that an asteroid is on a collision course with planet Earth will minimize injury and the loss of life.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Humans are developing the ability to study an Earth approaching object to prepare for one that is on an impact trajectory with our home planet.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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An asteroid which can come to within about an Earth circumference of the surface of our home planet needs watching.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Using ground penetrating RADAR on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have discovered an ice deposit on Mars the size of New Mexico.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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The extremely unlikely scenario of an impactor with our number on it.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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2017 will be a good year to view comets with your unaided eye or a pair of binoculars.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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Psyche is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and is composed of almost pure nickel-iron metal.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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It is intriguing to consider that deep inside Mars all of the necessary ingredients for life may be present together.

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
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Asteroid hunters rediscover and object first observed 15 years ago. It might be a candidate for mining in the future as space colonists look for r...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Riding the surface of the asteroid that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski recently discovered would be an incredible experience.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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