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 5,600 PRX free purchases as well as more than 782,000 downloads on the internet. It has been aired on 57 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.


764 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
24-Jupiter Friend or Foe
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter was once thought to provide a shield which has prevented impacts from objects in space. Modern calculations find that Jupiter sends some o...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
23-Capturing an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is planning an Asteroid Redirect Mission which will place a small asteroid in orbit about our moon. There it can be visited and studied by hum...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
22-Asteroid 2013 TV 135
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2013 TV135 is a potentially hazardous asteroid which at first appeared to be on a collision course with planet Earth. Subsequent observat...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
21-The Kepler Spacecraft's Search for Earth Like Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Kepler Spacecraft has discovered that planets which are apparently similar to Earth exist outside of our solar system.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
20-A Serendipitous Supernova in M82
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A group of students in London, England discover a supernova.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
19-An Asteroid with a Comet Orbit [2013 JD4]
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2013 JD4 has an unusual unstable orbit about the Sun.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
18-The First Pre-Impact Discovery [2008 TC3]
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first object discovered before it impacted the Earth.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
17-2013 US10 From Asteroid to Comet to Deep Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An object is discovered that first appeared to be a huge near Earth asteroid. Subsequent observations show it to be a comet making a single trip t...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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16-The Discovery of Comet P/2014 A2 (Hill)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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This piece describes the process of comet discovery.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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15-Suppose An Asteroid Is On A Collision Course With Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What are our options when we discover that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth?

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
14-The Rosetta Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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After a tour of the inner solar system, the Rosetta Spacecraft will land on a comet, make measurements, and return data to Earth.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
13-The Tunguska Event
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 1908 a small asteroid or comet entered the Earth's atmosphere over Siberia and killed 80 million trees.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
12-Mars and a Comet, A Near Miss
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In October of 2014 a comet will make a close approach to the planet Mars.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
11-Hunting Asteroids on January 7, 2014
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A description of Asteroid hunting with the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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10-Bennu to Receive A Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a sample and return mission to the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 8
9-Asteroid 2014 AA Impacted Earth on January 2, 2014
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The first Earth approaching asteroid discovered in 2014 hit our planet 20 hours after its discovery.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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8-A Bad Day for Dinosaurs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid impact changed life on Earth 66 million years ago.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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7-2013 UQ4 Comes in From the Cold
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid with a long orbital period comes near the Earth.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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6-A Near Miss: June 2013 [2013 LR6]
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid is discovered and tracked as it passes close to the Earth.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 8
5-Two Earth Approaching Objects Discovered the Same Day
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and a small asteroid which passed very near the Earth were discovered the same day by the telescopes of the Catali...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8

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