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

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Being night sky friendly reduces accidents, saves money, and is good for business.

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Diamonds are brought to Earth by asteroids. They are also created on our planet by impacting celestial objects.

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Two asteroid impacts provide clues about periods of chaos in the solar system.

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A damaging asteroid impact on planet Earth is an extremely unlikely but possible event.

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Humans have left their trash in space. Space junk threatens our current activities in many ways.

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The minor planet Icarus travels the inner solar system and makes close approaches to our Sun as well as to the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and M...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Using the long arm of the internet, Russian astronomers are making discoveries using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Astronomers now have the ability to detect the faint glow from asteroids and other solar system objects.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Asteroid hunters are starting to discover nearby objects before they make their closest approach to planet Earth.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Discover the American Association of Variable Star Observers and come to know more about a particular star than anyone else on Earth.

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to ...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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For some people the full Moon is for howling. For asteroid hunters it is time to regroup and make improvements in the process of finding Earth app...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Soon it will be possible to study changes in the Universe which have occurred over the past 100 years.

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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The most likely alien invaders are microorganisms which humans may export from or import to Earth's biosphere.

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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In the space of a couple of days the Catalina Sky Survey found 3 potentially dangerous asteroids.

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  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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Large asteroids which impact the Earth can cause global change.

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  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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For most asteroids our size estimates come from its brightness in the night sky.

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  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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A potentially hazardous asteroid has been found which travels on a path which is quite different from most other asteroids.

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  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
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If you woke up tomorrow with eyes sensitive to radio waves, you would be in for some interesting surprises.

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  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7