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Listening to Leonids

Posted by michael on from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept.

Bill Kendrick writes: "An interesting article was posted by NASA about reports of people hearing Leonids as they burnt up in the atmosphere. And not 5 minutes later, like you'd expect, but instantly. Apparently this is thanks to very low frequency radio signals given off by the meteors as they burn."

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  1. ELF/VLF listening by yack0 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is reminscent of some stuff I initially heard about on an NPR episode of 'Lost and Found Sound' which was a feature they were running in the last year or so.

    Stephen McGreevy, a professor at some college, IIRC, in California has been listening to Aurora Borealis' for years and has actually made recordings of some of the things he's heard and made CD's for retail sale. He also sells receivers to people so they can listen to the earth as well.

    Related links:
    His home page for VLF radio
    The page he wants people to bookmark , cause his current provider bites.
    His second CD
    The VLF receiver page

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