RE: [APML] OT: Radio meteor detection

["Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com>]

Brian
The links I gave in my last post refer to listening to meteors by hearing
radio waves from terrestrial sources that are reflect off the meteor trail
This is the easiest and most common way to hear meteors any time of day.
What you heard was most likely the result of the less common and harder to
detect emissions directly from the meteor plasma trail. The space shuttle
produces the same sort of plasma trail during reentry and it is easy to hear
at very low frequencies, so easy in fact that you don't need a radio,
really, just a long wire or ferrite core AM antenna plugged into the mic
input of a tape recorder will record the static from the plasma trail.
Dale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of Brian Larmay
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend any good sites or ideas on detecting meteors
> on radio.
> Last week I took my mom out observing and had the truck radio on
> and noticed
> the reception had an added static to it when a big meteor zipped by....a
> rather intense moment when we both saw and heard it <g>.
> It was her first time out too...said she was gettin dizzy.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> brileau@earthlink.net


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