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10 Little-Known Facts about the Leonids
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
14 November 2002
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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 and coming in loud and clear, if you know where to tune in.
(Visit our Leonids Special Report this Friday, Nov. 15 for a complete explanation on how to do this.)
Meanwhile, here’s a bonus fact, call it #5a: 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, here.]
Keep going, because you can’t predict this next fact …
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