AUDIO :    Geminid Meteor Shower Particles and other Random Space Dust Colliding with the Earth's Atmosphere    5 MB       5 minutes 20 seconds

Recorded :  December 13, 2008    1204:40 UT - 1210 UT    


Recording of a dual frequency forward scatter radio meteor array as it is receiving space dust particles striking the high ionosphere.

Upper channel of spectrogram above :  61.250 MHz CW 

Lower channel of spectrogram above :  83.250 MHz CW


The fireball during the 1208 UT minute is a Geminid and can be seen in the movies at :   http://www.heliotown.com/Fireballs_December_13_2008_Ashcraft.html


Thomas Ashcraft

Radio Fireball Observatory

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