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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
482-Botswana Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
483-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
484-Aliens?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
485-Last One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed bre...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
486-Martian Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
487-Touching The Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
488-20 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
489-Martian Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
491-One Half Inch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
492-Not Human
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
493-Ringed Dynamo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
494-Guard Down
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A co...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
495-Catching Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It might be possible to catch an asteroid, place it into Earth orbit, and thus provide a ready source of precious metals and water for space coloni...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
496-Boomer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
497-First One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters were able to discover a small Earth approaching asteroid after 57 nights of continuous rain and clouds.

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
498-Tiny Travelers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
499-Oppy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA Mars Opportunity Rover, nicked named Oppy by those who operate and love it ,was designed to last 90 days on the Martian surface but has co...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
500-Why Look
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What asteroid hunters fear is that a small space rock capable of injuring people and damaging buildings is heading our way and that we will not fin...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9

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