Things that go bump in the night sky

Stephen Battersby

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6697, 20-20

Abstract: The Leonid meteor shower, caused by debris from the comet Tempel-Tuttle, is sometimes spectacular. The Leonids of 1833 even made audible hissing, crackling and popping sounds, probably ‘electrophonic sounds’, produced by radio waves generated in the meteoroids' wakes. But this implies that some of the meteoroids must have been over a metre across — too big to escape the comet in the usual way, by sublimation pressure.

Date: 1998
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