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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147-High Traffic Area
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The asteroid hunting community has discovered more than 2000 small space rocks which can approach to less than our Moon's distance from planet Earth.

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  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
146-Stuff of Life
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers, using a powerful radio telescope in Chile, have discovered that the building blocks of life are present in baby solar systems.

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  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
145-Near Earth and Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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This discovery demonstrates the fact that the asteroid hunting community has the ability to detect small objects before they make their closest app...

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  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
144-One Of A Million
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are millions of small space rocks which come near the Earth. Here is the story of one of them.

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
143-Busy Little One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid has paid numerous visits to the vicinity of the Earth, Mars, and our Moon.

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
142-Planetary Defense
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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People are seriously preparing for the discovery that an asteroid is on a collision course with planet Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
141-Sailing the Cosmos
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Planetary Society is testing and deploying a small satellite to explore the use of solar sails in space.

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
140-A Weird Orbit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which travel outside the plane of our solar system are likely to have been involved in a collision sometime in the past.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
139-Next Step To Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA is proposing that the next step towards the human exploration of Mars be a manned mission to an asteroid which has been placed into orbit arou...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
138-An Inter-Planetary Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid visits the vicinity of both Earth and Mars.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
137-Bad Seeing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Earth's atmosphere make our life possible as well as keeping us from seeing objects in space clearly.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
136-The Oceans of Ganymede
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The largest satellite in our solar system, Ganymede, has more liquid water on its surface than is contained in Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes. ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
135-Future Impact Possibilities
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Three small asteroids are discovered which have the possibility of colliding with planet Earth in the far distant future.

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
134-Recycling Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A number of malfunctioning spacecraft have been reprogrammed so that they can produce useful results.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
133-2 Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Two 50 foot diameter asteroids, which can make very close approaches to planet Earth, were discovered slightly more than a day apart.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
132-Kowalski's Forever Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Kowalski's 12th comet is destined for a long cold journey till the end of time.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
131-Deafening Silence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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More than 50 years of searching for signals from alien civilizations has produced a deafening silence. My money is on the concept that there are m...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
130-Things That Dim In The Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Objects in the Universe which dim instead of brighten have an interesting story to tell.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
129- A 3 City Block Sized Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid the size of three city blocks was spotted 50 million miles from Earth. Someday it will make a close approach to our planet.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
128-Buzzed By An Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock comes unusually close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8

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