Re: fireball or reentry/ satellite sounds

Steven Rogers (srogers@onr.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:34:39 -0600

At 12:02 AM 11/20/98 +0000, Alan Pickup wrote:
>> This was probably a Leonid - it is not necessary for the radiant to
>> be above the horizon to see shower meteors...
>
> What has been omitted from the above quotation of Mark Hanning-Lee's
> original posting is the . . . radiant was some 35 degrees below Mark's
> northern horizon.  . . .

I missed the angle - you're right that is unreasonably far for a Leonid
to be pulled off its path. Probably a coincidence and not a Leonid.

Regarding meteor/satellite sounds, I got a reference from Robert Matson
to an article in the November issue of S&T with a couple paragraphs on=20
page 32 that mention the phenomena called 'electrophonic sound'.

Bj=F6rn Gimle related a report of sounds during shuttle re-entry (humming
lampposts?) - I've seen only one shuttle re-entry, and no sound except
for the much delayed sonic boom. =20

Steve