(meteorobs) Forgotten research on meteors - maybe it is time to reconsider?

[szilard.csizmadia at dlr.de]

Dear Andrei,

maybe the following papers can be interesting for the topic, too (maybe there are more).

best wishes,
Szilard

Mass-height relation for antimatter meteors - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990EM%26P...49....1P

Velocity-height relation for antimatter meteors - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987EM%26P...38...13P

Annihilation of antimatter meteors - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993EM%26P...60...41P

Lifetime of antimatter meteors - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994EM%26P...65...71P

A note on antimatter meteors - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988EM%26P...40..213B

There are some more related - mostly theoretical - papers about antimatter meteors on ADS. I did not know about Konstantinov's work (thanks for pointing out!), but for me it seems teh idea is not completely forgotten and there are people who are interested in it and they use it to explain the Tunguska-event, for instance.

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Von: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org]" im Auftrag von "Andrei Ol'khovatov [olkhov77 at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Montag, 18. Mai 2015 15:00
An: Meteor science and meteor observing
Betreff: (meteorobs) Forgotten research on meteors - maybe it is time to        reconsider?

Dear All,

As I know many meteor-lovers are using radio-devices trying to catch
possible radiowaves associated with meteors (if any).

Meanwhile I would like to attract attention to another puzzle associated
with meteors.

In the 1960s a lot of research was done in (that times) the Soviet Union
checking an idea that meteors, comets consist of antimatter! (after some
criticism by astronomers the idea was modified into 'some sporadic
meteors are of antimatter'). The idea was promoted by outstanding Soviet
scientist academician Boris Konstantinov (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Konstantinov ).
Konstantinov led rather large scale research trying to find connection
between meteors and 'nuclear' radiation which was thought to be
generated during antimatter-matter annihilation. They even launched
high-altitude ballons, placed radiation counters on airplanes, etc..

Probably the most interesting way was to place the radiation counters
and a radar in such position, that the radar could 'see' meteors above
the detectors. Then they calculated statistics. They discovered some
peculiarities in statistics. According to their intriguing results a
meteor generates ~ 1 additional count of the counter at altitudes 13-18
km in average (i.e. increase of background radiation for ~ 2% ). Time
scale of the effect is ~ 10 seconds. Probability of its random nature is
0.000001 .

After death of Konstantinov in 1969 the idea of the 'antimatter meteors'
was quickly forgotten.

But forgotten also were the intriguing experimental results... Indeed
how to explain them as
we know that meteoroids/comets are not of antimatter? Apparently
'something happens' - but what?

It looks like nowadays when the astonishing 'antimatter thunderstorm'
appears
(
http://www.nature.com/news/rogue-antimatter-found-in-thunderclouds-1.17526 )
, it is a proper time to reconsider the old meteor's results again.
Meteor phenomena produce many puzzles. Who knows, maybe future 'nuclear
meteor' research help to better understand some meteor's mysteries as
electrophonic sounds, reported electric disturbances, etc.?...

The reported 'nuclear' meteor effect was rather small, so large
statistical data is needed --> a community of  meteor-lovers could do
even more than a single well-equipped laboratory.

I hope that some people will be interesting to reconsider the effect.

Here is about the main article by the Konstantinov's group:
http://adslabs.org/adsabs/abs/1966CosRe...4...58K/


Sincerely,
Andrei Ol'khovatov





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