Clues to Mysterious Meteor Sounds Sought In Iridium Satellite Suicides By Robery Roy Britt and Mary Motta 28 March 2000 While playing stickball one evening in the early 1970s in Dover, Delaware, Chuck Bonner and his playmates heard a loud, abnormal whistling noise accompanied by a buzz. The teenagers ran around the house, expecting to find an airplane plunging earthward. Instead they spotted a green fireball as large as a full moon streaking across the sky. Ever since, Bonner (now a software designer who runs a website called Lunar Colony) has wondered how he could have heard the apparent meteor before he saw it, since sound travels much slower than light. Scientists have been wondering the same thing -- for a lot longer. And now they have the opportunity to study this phenomenon in a giant lab experiment in the sky. At Bonner's suggestion, researchers will keep their eyes and ears open to monitor what happens when 66 Volkswagen-sized Iridium spacecraft will be deorbited into a fiery suicide dive to Earth. Scientists hope the artificial meteors will simulate real space rocks burning up in the atmosphere, yielding clues to what causes this mysterious cacophony of sounds. Full story here: http://www.space.com/science/iridium_sound_000328.html The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.wco.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace + + + continuous ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace > News://alt.binaries.pictures.12hr ://a.b.p.fine-art.misc > Mailing-list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg > Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net > http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html { brad brace } <<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> ~finger for pgp __
