The route starts by running upstream along pretty Opal Creek on the Skyline-to-Sea Trail for two miles, then cuts off on the Meteor Trail and climbs 400 feet to the Middle Ridge Fire Road.
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In 1944, while researching a radar system that was " pointed up " to detect the V-2 missiles falling on London, James Stanley Hey confirmed that the meteor trails were in fact reflecting radio signals.
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On April 20, 1921, various people throughout southwest and south-central Georgia observed a meteor trail across the sky which culminated in an explosion and impact at a minimum of four spots slightly north of Pitts.
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Other astrophysical phenomena investigated by St�rmer include pulsations of the earth's magnetic field, echoing in radio transmissions, nacreous clouds and luminous night clouds, zodiacal light, meteor trails, the solar corona and solar vortices, and cosmic rays.
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Because the presence of a meteor trail at a suitable location between two stations cannot be predicted, stations attempting meteor scatter communications must transmit the same information repeatedly until an acknowledgement of reception from the other station is received.
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When the V-2 attacks ceased, the echoes did not; Hey concluded that meteor trails were responsible and that radar could be used to track meteor streams, and could of course do so by day as well as by night.
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Forecasts that the Leonids would put on their best show over Japan and China were only partly realized; according to news agency reports, people in parts of Thailand saw many bright meteor trails, while the view from Tokyo was disappointing.
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The lead experiment on the Electra, conducted by Dr . Chester S . Gardner and his team from the University of Illinois, will seek to measure the amount of iron dumped into the atmosphere by meteors, and to measure the temperatures of meteor trails.
