Travelers In The Night

Series produced by Albert Grauer

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Image by: NASA 

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 new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Martian Trojan asteroids appear to have been created by a tremendous impact early in the history of the solar system.

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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The Moon is water rich and can supply lunar colonists with many of their needs.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A small asteroid tests planetary defenses.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Topographic features on rubble pile asteroids are produced in a novel way.

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Florence is the largest asteroid in more than 100 years to approach the Earth.

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Your representatives, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are heading into deep interstellar space.

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Additional observations over the years have eliminated the possibility that Apophis will strike the Earth as it streaks by closer than the communic...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Finding a meteorite that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach it's present location is exciting. It might even be worth real money.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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The moon cycle from new moon through full moon and back to new moon again was used by many nations to regulate their activities and forms the basis...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of t...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6