{"podcast":{"title":"Travelers In The Night","slug":"travelers-in-the-night-1048610","podcast_index_feed_id":1048610,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1335265/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://travelersinthenight.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/80c14f73da04cdff5cfaef4dcc1c596f.jpg","author":"Albert D. Grauer","episode_count":1000,"summary":"A real \"Science Snack\" for anyone who is interested in the extraterrestrial. Dr. Al Grauer is a member of the Catalina Sky Survey which has led the world in near Earth asteroid discoveries for 17 of the past 19 years. The music is \"Eternity\" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact Aliens","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:18:51.297654+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610"},"episode":{"title":"391E-428-Phaethon","slug":"391e-428-phaethon","published_at":"2026-06-02T16:10:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/391e-428-phaethon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/391e-428-phaethon--71947442","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71947442/428_phaethon.mp3","summary":"The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon (FAY-eh-thon) does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet. Further it appears to be like the Peanuts character Pigpen in that it leaves a trail of dust and other fine debris in it's wake which in the case of Phaethon produces the Geminid Meteor Shower to delight us every year around Christmas time. Phaethon is amazing in that every 524 days it makes a death defying flight to a point less than one of half of the planet Mercury's distance from the Sun, where it's surface temperature reaches a mind boggling 1,200 Fahrenheit. During one of these events the NASA Stereo Spacecraft A discovered that Phaethon had rock dust tail.","meta_description":"The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon (FAY-eh-thon) does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet. Further it appear…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/episodes/391e-428-phaethon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/391e-428-phaethon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}