{"id":38165,"date":"2011-08-14T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/listen-in-on-the-perseid-meteor-shower-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:17","slug":"listen-in-on-the-perseid-meteor-shower-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/listen-in-on-the-perseid-meteor-shower-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Listen in on the Perseid meteor shower | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/10\/netherlands_meteor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b741_netherlands_meteor-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6200\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The Moon is putting a big wet blanket <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/08\/the-perseids-are-coming-but-sos-the-moon\/\">on this year&rsquo;s Perseid meteor shower<\/a>, making it hard to see them. <\/p><p>But that&rsquo;s OK: if you can&rsquo;t see them, why not <em>listen<\/em> to them?<\/p><p>Sounds weird, but thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceweatherradio.com\/index.php\">SpaceWeatherRadio<\/a>, now you can! You&rsquo;re not really hearing sound, of course: meteors burn up in our atmosphere at a height of 100 km or so, too high to directly carry sound waves. But the Air Force has a radar surveillance facility in Texas that beams radio waves into the sky. When a bit of cosmic fluff streaks through our sky, the ionized trail it leaves reflects the radio waves, producing an echo. This radio wave is then <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceweatherradio.com\/navspasur.php\">translated into sound<\/a>, so you can effectively hear a meteor! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/meteors\/audio\/geminidecho.mp3\">Here&rsquo;s an example of a Geminid meteor<\/a>; it sounds like it could&rsquo;ve been pulled right off the soundtrack for \"Forbidden Planet\". There&rsquo;s also more info on how this works <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/1998\/ast22dec98_1\/\">on the NASA science page<\/a>.<\/p><p>If you want to listen live, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceweatherradio.com\/index.php\">here you go<\/a>. I had it going for a while and heard several faint but ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vMLxYlPzRlYrCKglhOQsmYc7ECc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b741_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vMLxYlPzRlYrCKglhOQsmYc7ECc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b741_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b741_ny2dCQeN-Ms\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b741_7KV4r55GZNc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon is putting a big wet blanket on this year&rsquo;s Perseid meteor shower, making it hard to see them. But that&rsquo;s OK: if you can&rsquo;t see them, why not listen to them?Sounds weird, but thanks to SpaceWeatherRadio, now you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/listen-in-on-the-perseid-meteor-shower-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}