Re: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms

• To: meteorobs@jovian.com
• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireballs & sonic booms
• From: Markku Vanamo <mvanamo@sci.fi>
• Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:48:07 +0200
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GeoZay@aol.com wrote:
> 
> and I was absolutely sure that it was the sense of hearing the sound in 3D
> that
> help me to locate the right spot instantly, not the illumination around me.<<
> 
> How would you know where a sound transmitted by electromagnetic means came
> from? It would be like knowing where a transmitter was for any songs heard
> over a radio for any given random frequency you tune to?  Personally I don't
> know anyone who can change to an unknown radio station and be able to say it
> was located in any particular direction with only their senses to go on.

  Yes, you're right.  I should have said I heard the sound in 2D.

Markku

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