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.


795 Pieces

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Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The CubeSat industry is making relatively low cost exploration of space possible and is creating heretofore undreamed of opportunities for the hum...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A strange object consisting of two mile diameter asteroids surrounded by a gas cloud is orbiting our Sun.

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Large undiscovered Earth approaching asteroids are still out there.

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Most of New Zealand's large rural areas and land reserves, covering an area as large as the UK, have unpolluted natural night skies offering specta...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation ab...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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My team the Catalina Sky Survey set a new single month record by discovering 211 Earth approaching objects in October of 2017. Fortunately none of...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A tiny space rock narrowly missed the Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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To cut the mission time to Mars, the risks, and the mass of supplies required for such a prolonged space mission NASA is looking at alternative mea...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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The impact of a 1,200 foot diameter asteroid would produce devastating earth quakes and wind blasts over many square miles on the Earth's surface.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A three football field sized asteroid survives on a harrowing path around our Sun.

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system.

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Earth like planets are being discovered circling the most common type of star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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A thousand meteors brighter than the planet Venus enter the Earth's atmosphere every day. The record of one of them on your dash cam can reveal whe...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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The first alien object to observed visiting our solar system arrives from truly deep space and leaves us with the mystery of what it is and how it ...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7