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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. Re:HAARP by coyote-san · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I fear for the future... and not because of HAARP, or even "gentlemen's C" Yale graduates.

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