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 6,250 PRX free purchases as well as more than 821,000 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.


807 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Comets may have brought the life enabling element Carbon to our planet.

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The NASA NEOWISE satellite has discovered a family of dark, stealthy asteroids some of which make close approaches to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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An asteroid small enough to fit under a basketball hoop makes frequent approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Mars.

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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An asteroid hunter wishes for a birthday comet but instead the Universe gave her an asteroid.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A rare very large Earth approaching object is discovered in an unusual place in the sky.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Humans must be very careful not to introduce any of Earth's organisms into the Martian environment.

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A small asteroid about the size of a U-Haul moving truck makes frequent visits to our part of the solar system.

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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It is possible that showers of comets changed the course of life on Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A space boomerang meets its fate in a collision with the Earth about 60 miles off of the coast of Sri Lanka producing a bright, but harmless light ...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Asteroids have been hauling water to our Moon and depositing it in places which are very handy for future human colonists.

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Rik Hill discovers two potentially hazardous asteroids on successive nights.

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Time spent under the natural night sky is one of the great joys of being human.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The Flat Earth Society is being replaced by Climate Change Deniers.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Comets have blazed a path to the stars for humans to follow.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A small asteroid survives a close approach to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The repurposed WISE spacecraft has discovered a stealthy asteroid.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Generally the more data one obtains on a Near Earth Object the less likely it is to strike Earth. This is a story of how this process works.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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It is gratifying to see that an individual with modest equipment can make scientific discoveries.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Will 100 million dollars in grant funds be enough for humans to discover a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack?

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7