Comments on: Sounds of a meteor shower

By: Weekend Links: How the [bleep] Does Swearing Work? - Sopaipleto » Sopaipleto

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:30:22 +0000

[...] in the Halloween spirit by checking out the eerie sound of … a meteor shower! * The Smithsonian Magazine‘s blog has been filled with some pretty cool articles recently [...]

By: Weekend Links: How the [bleep] Does Swearing Work? - Cine Sopaipleto » Cine Sopaipleto

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:53:26 +0000

[...] in the Halloween spirit by checking out the eerie sound of … a meteor shower! * The Smithsonian Magazine‘s blog has been filled with some pretty cool articles recently [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:28:37 +0000

Sounds a bit like an air-acetylene torch, i would image from the gases and material burning up at high temperatures. Just a lot creepier!

By: Keith Bowden

Keith Bowden — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:07:26 +0000

You had me at Ren & Stimpy. Joy!

By: Ian S

Ian S — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:53:18 +0000

@ tom K:
Or tooth fillings or bridge work, my dad’s a dentist and has come across people who are able to hear radio stations through their tooth work, weird but there you go..

By: Today’s Research: The Nobel Winners Reactions | Atlantic Wire

Today’s Research: The Nobel Winners Reactions | Atlantic Wire — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:27:56 +0000

[...] odd whistles and whirrs of a meteor shower.Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait points to this video posted by astronaut Ron Garan and explains what things we’re hearing [...]

By: Tom K

Tom K — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:26:35 +0000

“You’re not really hearing sound, of course: meteors burn up in our atmosphere at a height of 100 km or so, too high to directly carry sound waves.”

However under rare circumstances, some people have “heard” meteors. I was outside one night with a friend of mine and we both saw a bright meteor. He said, “Wow! Did you hear that?” I said “No, and neither did you.” He was confused and I explained that while meteors could sometimes produce sound (from their sonic boom, or possibly from exploding), there would of course be a delay before it would be heard, just like lightning and thunder.

However he had distinctly heard a sound immediately when the meteor flashed. The best we can figure is that his metal glasses frame had picked up radio waves and produced a sound that he could hear, but I couldn’t.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:58:28 +0000

Heh. Marcin (7) cannot view the video because of living in the wrong part of the world, and I can’t view it because of our draconian firewall at work. And possibly also living in the wrong part of the world. (Instead of “this video is unavaiable from your location”, I get “your request to view this webpage has been logged and will be audited”).

Anyhow, I’ve never heard meteor scatter, but I have heard SSB signals propagated by aurora. It was seriously spooky.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:21:23 +0000

“Sorry, this video is unavailable from your location” – I just hate this fake globalization.

Do you know where can I see this Ren and Stimpy clip?

By: Today's Research: The Nobel Winners Reactions | Con Games

Today's Research: The Nobel Winners Reactions | Con Games — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:28:34 +0000

[...] odd whistles and whirrs of a meteor shower. Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait points to this video posted by astronaut Ron Garan and explains what things we're [...]