meteor
Taken by David Ocame on July 29, 2014 @
At my home in southern Connecticut.
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This is an example of radio detection of meteors using the forward scatter technique pioneered by: Oswald Villard in 1947, and more recently by Z. Abidin, et al, 2011 and M Leech, 2013.
Each "blip" seen top to bottom, in a vertical "dotted" line is most likely a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere at a height of from 60-80 km leaving a trail of ionized particles that form a reflective layer for the signal from a distant transmitter to bounce off and back toward my local receiver using an ordinary TV antenna at 76 mHz.
The number of blips is an increase over the same time frame from a week ago (not shown). This image shows a rate of approximately 75 meteors/hour. I hope to post more complete data in the weeks following the August Perseid shower. Please stay tuned.
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