Thursday, August 28, 2008

What A Meteor "Bounce" Looks Like

This is an audio wave graph, showing (highlighted) 10-seconds of an audio recording. The spike in the middle is the signal from a distant FM radio station being briefly reflected off a meteor tail. Everything else on the graph is simply static. This "bounce" occured on the morning of August 27 at 3:03 a.m.

3 comments:

wonderfulsound said...

can you hear them?

Jim Tegerdine said...

When my FM radio is tuned to a distant station, all I hear is static. When a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere between my antenna and the radio station, whatever is being broadcast from the station at that moment will briefly come in clear on my radio.

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