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(meteorobs) Re: meteorobs-digest V3 #804



Negative report on any sounds.  Had hundreds per hour in Colorado most of
the 1-5 am observing period.  Of course the hot tub could have covered up
weak sounds.

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> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:48:53 -0500
> From: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com>
> Subject: (meteorobs) Re: [nhas] Did you hear any Leonids?
>
> Barbara of the New Hampshire [USA] Astronomical Society writes:
>
> >This article talks about the possibility that one can hear a meteor
> >as it is seen in the sky... [Did anyone hear any Leonids?]
> >    http://science.nasadot gov/headlines/y2001/ast26nov_1.htm?list633145
>
>
> Strangely, Barbara, I saw over 3000 meteors that night (and maybe over
4000,
> as I'm still transcribing!), not to mention more fireballs than I've seen
in
> my entire life before now... and I didn't hear one electrophonic sound!
>
> I might simply have been too focused on recording activity... Or it may
have
> been that I was in the middle of the observing platform - no metal
"resonators"
> really close to my head that night. I *HAVE* heard simultaneous sounds
before:
> the last time was a -7 fireball during the 1996 Leonids, which I observed
from
> Evans Notch NH... Interestingly, I was set up next to MY VAN to get out of
the
> wind that cold, cold (+5F) night. The sound was just like that described
in Dr
> Phillips' story: a "buzzing" or "whizzing", quite similar (I felt at the
time)
> to the sound a light bulb makes when it finally dies...
>
> Did anyone else hear any electrophonics during this year's "Roar of the
Lion"?
>
> Clear skies,
> Lew Gramer
> Medford MA USA
>
>
>


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