There have been anecdotal accounts of sounds being received by 'some' observers in the presence of brilliant fireballs (the kind that cast shadows on the ground, perhaps -10 or brighter). In past years, efforts locally have been made to perceive reentries of the Space Shuttle (firebally only magnitude -4 or -5) but there have been no systematic nor concrete records obtained which conclusively prove that such 'sounds' are real or can be predicted to be heard by individuals wearing metal rimmed glasses, for example. More study on the subject is certainly needed and much of the work in the past has been done by a gentleman in Australia. During the Leonid meteor shower, I watched and listened from a site at 3,000 feet elevation north of Beijing China in 1998 and witnessed at least a dozen meteors that I thought might have been good candidates. No sounds were perceived by me (wearing metal rimmed glasses) nor anyone else in the vicinity that I questioned and yet some of these fireballs were truly brilliant. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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