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 6,000 PRX free purchases as well as more than 807,000 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.


793 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
73-Mars 2020 Rover
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is planning a new Mars rover which will be based on the successful Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity Mars rovers. It will be able to directl...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
72-Could Space Aliens Detect Life On Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By looking at a star as one of its planets passes in front of it, astronomers are able to learn about its atmosphere.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
71-Martian Women
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Men may be from Mars but women are exploring it.

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
70- NASA Mars Spacecraft Prepare For A Close Comet Flyby
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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High speed debris from comets may pose a threat to our spacecraft.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
69-Fly Out Of Spaceport America
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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SpaceShipTwo will carry 6 passengers and two pilots and be launched from the 18,000 acre SpacePort America in New Mexico.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
68-Hubble Finds Three Surprising Dry Exoplanets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Hubble Space Telescopes finds a surprising lack of water on three planets outside of our solar system.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
67-NASA Deep Space Network Turns 50
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NASA Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. It is the way all of our spacecraft phone home.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
66-Opportunity Celebrates 10 Years On Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What was designed to be a 3 month mission has turned out to be a fascinating exploration of our next door neighbor.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
65-Your Shield
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The NEOShield project is an international group of scientists and engineers who are developing techniques to protect us from Earth impacting objects.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
64-Asteroid Brings Life's Pieces To Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The best preserved meteorite on Earth was analyzed and found to contain the building blocks of life.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
63-Rocks From Space Bearing Vitamin B3
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The building blocks of life can form in deep space. From there asteroids and comets bring them to Earth.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
62-From Big Dark Asteroid To Beautiful Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large dark asteroid becomes a beautiful comet as it approaches the Sun.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
61-There Are Still Big Ones Out There
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters find find 5 large asteroids in our neighborhood. Fortunately none of them is on a collision course with planet Earth.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
60-A Close Visit With A Message
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid, capable of causing human injuries if it entered the Earth's atmosphere, passed between the Earth and Moon. It was detected only a...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
59-Spotting Travelers In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Travelers In The Night from outer space are closer than you may imagine.

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
58-NASA Hunts for A Special Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Spitzer Space Telescope has been used to characterize an asteroid suitable for visitation by Astronauts.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
57-Hold A Traveler In The Night In Your Hand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Look for and find a celestial Traveler In The Night.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
56-A Whopper or A Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A newly discovered near Earth object is either a huge asteroid or a comet. We will just have to wait and see.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
55-RADAR Telescopes Pair Up to Image Near-Earth Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA RADAR Telescopes obtain spectacular images of a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
54-Tour A Neighbor World
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our Moon has many fascinating features which can be observed with a small telescope or binoculars.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6

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