[IRCA] FIREBALL ALERT (Off topic)

["W. Curt Deegan" <wcdeegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An off topic item from: http://spaceweather.com/  See the site for the full 
story.

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FIREBALL ALERT:  On Sunday morning, Jan. 15th, between 1:56 and 1:59 a.m. 
PST (0956 - 0959 UT), a brilliant fireball will streak over northern 
California and Nevada. It's NASA's Stardust capsule, returning to Earth 
with samples of dust from Comet Wild 2.

The fireball should be visible from parts of Oregon, Idaho and Utah as well 
as California and Nevada: observing tips.

If you're too far away to see the fireball, you might be able to hear 
it--on the radio. The technique is called "meteor scatter." Tune an FM 
radio to a silent spot between local stations and point the radio's antenna 
in the general direction of northern Nevada. When the Stardust capsule rips 
through the atmosphere, it will create an electrically ionized wake that 
reflects radio waves. You could suddenly pick up stations hundreds to 
thousands of miles away reflected in your direction from the fireball's tail.

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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, Florida 


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