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You can listen to the Leonids

Meteors leave behind a trail of ionized gas. Sometimes, the signal from a distant FM radio station or TV station will bounce off this trail, overcoming the Earth’s curvature, clouds and city lights and coming in loud and clear, if you know where to tune in.

Instructions for listening to meteors are here.

On rare occasions, large meteors reportedly generate loud whistling or buzzing sounds that arrive to "earwitnesses" before they see the glowing fireballs in the sky. Sound can’t travel faster than light, but scientists are perplexed as to what’s going on. More on these electrophonic sounds, as they’re called, is here.

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