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

[Cliff Sojourner]

this is an interesting topic.

as you noted, antimatter annihilation produces gamma photons, which are 
way beyond visible light frequency, so I would not expect any other 
photons such as a VLF signature from the events. I don't imagine the 
event creating an ion trail, either, so I don't see how any natural VLF 
signal could be reflected or dampened...

anyways there just isn't much antimatter in the universe.  certain 
atomic processes create both anti-electrons and anti-protons, which look 
like cosmic rays.  but they don't last long in earth's upper 
ionosphere.  which is good for us, down here on the surface.

Cliff K6CLS

On 2015-05-19 15:36, drobnock wrote:
> Interesting concept. When using a Geiger counter or ionization chamber,
> the individual click that is heard is credited to a stray beta or gamma
> particle. When listening with a VLF receiver, to detect a meteor
> signature, the individual discharge  or static noise heard is attributed
> to a sferic. But with this information, with no visual meteor in the
> field of view,  the signature may be an antimatter meteor? With a visual
> meteor it is generally the accepted theory a meteor of magnitude -6 or
> mote is needed to create the energy for a signature or electronic noise.
> How - with out reading the articles - large a bit of antimatter meteor
> is needed to produce the signature? Is the size of the anti matter
> meteor material important to produce the signature?
>
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