Daylight Meteors, page 1
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Topic started on 13-6-2004 @ 03:14 PM by Spectre
While checking one of my favorite web haunts, SpaceWeather.com, I read an interesting story about meteor showers that occur during daylight hours. Obviously, you can't see them, but there is a way to hear them. Don't take my word for it!
DAYLIGHT METEORS: You can't see them, but they're there: meteors streaking overhead in broad daylight. June is the best month of the year for daylight meteors, with three active showers: the Arietids (June 7/8), the zeta Perseids (June 13/14), and the beta Taurids (June 29/30). The best way to enjoy these showers is with your ears. Whenever a meteor flies over the Naval Space Surveillance Radar (NAVSPASUR) in Texas, the radar records a ghostly ping.

They were kind enough to provide links to the Naval Space Surveillance System (NAVSPASUR) site, and a link to listen live.

If you are bored with your MP3 collection, this will make a nice change of pace. You can pretend you are one of the characters in the movie "Contact" listening to SETI static!

Also interesting: The audio stream is provided by amateur astronomer Stan Nelson, who monitors NAVSPASUR echoes from Roswell, New Mexico.


reply posted on 13-6-2004 @ 09:12 PM by cmdrkeenkid
another awesome site is: www.spacesounds.com...

you can listen to black holes, the sun, neutron stars, and other things.

EDIT: by the way, some of them are just freakish sounding. it's amazing.

[edit on 6/13/2004 by cmdrkeenkid]

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