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
107-Mining Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal.

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
106-Your Reality Fueled Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA/JPL has developed a new computer program, based on software game architecture, which allows you to tour space using real NASA data.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
105-A New Chapter In The Human Exploration Of Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The successful unmanned test of the Orion Spacecraft is the beginning of a new chapter in the human exploration of space.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
104-Jupiter Trojan Confusion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Jupiter Trojan asteroids can masquerade as near Earth Objects.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Small asteroids come close enough at the right speeds for us to visit them.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
102-Little Asteroid On An Inside Track
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid will make close approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Venus.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
101-Navigating The Earth-Moon Dance
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We are discovering many small asteroids which pass closer to us than the Moon. Very rarely one of them crashes into the Earth or Moon.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
100-Where Extension Cords Can't Reach
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The use of Radioisotope Power Systems has brought us a wealth of knowledge about our solar system.

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
99-Peppered By Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids.

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
98-Small Objects Visiting Our Neighborhood
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Every month we discover small asteroids which come closer than the Moon.

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
97-A Large Strange One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth.

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
96-Target Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Students have the opportunity to do original scientific research and to discover and name asteroids.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
95-Phantom Meteor Shower
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Observations of what appeared to be different objects, over the time span from 1819 to the present, are likely to be manifestations of the same tra...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
94-You Are Close To Outer Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA
Outer space is not far from you, it just takes a lot of energy to get there.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
93-Name That Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A unique program allows students to discover and name asteroids.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
92- An Earth Approaching Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A recently discovered Earth Approaching comet reminds us that there are objects like this out there and how they could influence human activity.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
91-Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small meteoroid traveling faster than a rifle bullet has more kinetic energy than a locomotive.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
90-Shine Little Asteroid Shine
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small asteroid becomes bright enough to be seen with a small telescope and an electronic camera.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
89-Witnessing An Asteroid Impact
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What would it be like to witness an asteroid impact similar to what happened at Tunguska, Russia in 1908.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
88-Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space rocks have been observed hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and lying on the surface of planet Earth.

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7

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