Re: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms
• From: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com>
• Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:59:37 -0400
• In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:12:25 -1000." <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907011708500.8020-100000@pohaku.jach.hawaiidot edu>
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> Without checking the messages Lew mentions or Colin Keay's papers,
> my recollection is that electrophonic sounds come from extremely
> bright bolides, like <-18.
> 
> Malcolm

Is that lower limit based on theoretical models of their cause, Malcolm?

I ask, because the one simultaneous sound I've witnessed in recent years
was associated with a "mere" -7 Leonid, and I'd assumed many such events
were witnessed with meteors far less awe-inspiring than -18!

Lew


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• Re: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms
• From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>

• RE: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms
• From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>

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