Interesting article. Daniel, do you hear meteors often, or was your experience singular? If you hear them often, do you have an idea what the transducer might be? Brent From: "erikhansen@thebluezone.net" <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Lyrid meteor shower hits the west!
Guess it depends on how close you are.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast26nov_1/
It turns out meteors make a lot of low frequency radio noise which travels at near light speed. Then common objects in the vicinity of the listener act as transducers that turn the vlf signial to an audio signal. Frizzy hair, pine needles, leaves, grass. I have experienced this and can vouch for it. It was a low and slow Leonid that passed over head and made a noise like a sizzling steak on the grill with absolutely no time delay or dopler shift. Just a rise and fall of the volume with the brightness of the meteor. DT