Travelers In The Night

Series produced by Albert Grauer

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Image by: NASA 

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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A large asteroid with a long orbital period comes near the Earth.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A small asteroid is discovered and tracked as it passes close to the Earth.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 8
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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...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This piece introduces the listener to potentially hazardous asteroids.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, KSFR and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This piece presents the process of discovering Earth approaching objects.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
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In 2013 the Voyager I spacecraft became the most distant human made Traveler in the Night as it continues its journey into space.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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A description of what happened when a large rock in space entered the Earth's atmosphere over Russia on February 15, 2013

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9