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Author Topic: Listen to the Orionid meteor shower  (Read 688 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Listen to the Orionid meteor shower
« on: October 20, 2015, 1702 UTC »
Radio engineer Stan Nelson uses a Yagi antenna in New Mexico to detect 54 MHz TV signals reflected from meteor trails. When a meteor passes over his observatory--ping!--there is an echo.

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Chris Smolinski
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