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(meteorobs) Repost: Super Sound Of Shooting Stars
Here's a repost of a BBC Science news report from last April, regarding
the recording of electrophonic sounds by a Croatian graduate student at
the University of Kentucky, on one of the Mongolian Leonid expeditions!
I read over the article at the BBC URL: the BBC article seems to imply
that these electrophonic events were recorded several times during the
once-in-a-lifetime fireball shower from the Leonids last year...
Is anyone familiar with the results or expedition of Dr/Mr Vinkovic?
Clear skies,
Lew Gramer
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Subject: (meteorobs) Super Sound Of Shooting Stars
Super sound of shooting stars
>From BBC Science reporter Dr Chris Riley in San Francisco
A Croatian astronomer thinks he has cracked a meteor mystery that has
baffled the scientific world for over two centuries.
He has managed to record what he believes are the illusive, instantaneous
sounds made by shooting stars as they crash through the Earth's upper
atmosphere.
The extraordinary thing about these noises is that the observer on the
ground hears them at the same time as the meteor appears overhead. On the
face of it, this would seem impossible because it would require the noises
to break the sound barrier!
Full story here:
http://news.bbc.codot uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321596.stm
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