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Show mam UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. December 24. Utah site among four set up to detect meteors By Auodattd Pnu Listening stations set up in the Went to monitor underground nuclear explorione since 1983 also are detecting incoming meteors. New Mexico defense lab ecientiite aid Wednesday. Alamos' National Loa Laboratory meteorologist Doug who works in the ReVelle, CompreMnrive That Ban Treaty International Monitoring System, said meteors emit a signal that can bo picked up as they enter Earths atmosphere. He said meteors or bolides'' as small as a lew centimeters in diameter can be detected. Sensors using microphones have been placed in four Western locations, including Utah, to detect sound waves created by the bolides. The Earth ran into a swarm of these things in October," ReVelle said in a statement released in Los Alamos. "Who knows when they came from? Perhaps they wen the result of a near-Eart- h asteroid that had collided with something. ReVelle presented his findings Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. From Oct 2 through Oct 4, he said, nearly a dozen such bodes wen seen over Earth. During that period, five separate finballs wen recorded over California, New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest, he said. The California bolides diameter was estimated at about three-fourtof a meter. It was seen by hundreds of people and even heard by some or them, he said. "Sometimes you'll actually hear a hissing or a buzzing noise and youll turn around, look and see a fireball. What you're hearing," ReVelle said, "is mom of an electrical disturbance caused by the object interacting with Earth's geomagnetic field." The finballs over California and New Mexico initially wen believed to be one fireball that entered the atmoephere, skipped back into an obit around Earth, ha said. then cy cy But ReVelle said . further checking determined the fireball wen actually two sightings separate He objects. Infrasonic sounds an very he said, "somewhere in tha realm between hearing and meteorology. These sounds am well below the range of human hearing., .but actually can be detected as small changes in atmospheric pmssun. If you had a barometer that was sensitive enough," he said, "youd be able to see fluctuations of several microban when the waves arrive." The senson are located in St George, the Nevada Test Site, Los Alamos and Pinedale, Wyo., lab spokesman John Gustafbon said. The Loa Alamos rite, about 200 yards square, includes four sensors, he said. The UFCC is a emergency hotline service to the public and health professionals of Utah for assistance during a poisoning emergency. It is stiffed around the clock with physicians, licensed pharmacists and nurses with additional training in clinical toxicology. 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Thanks for your valued patronage and have very happy holiday season! a te p. te SVttNG yQo said . Santa will soon drop in! The stockbigs hewe bw hung arid you're ready for the festivities to begfn. But before everyone gets too wrapped up in the countdown to Christmas, we want to thank all of you for your friendship and patronage. He said scientists still have many questions about the Oct. 3 finballs. "And them am some things which dont quite add up. You know," he said, "I'm not really sun what was happening in the sky that night." But ReVelle asid it is common far at least one bolide of about s diameter to enter tha atmoephere every year. "These bolidee) make an infraaanic signal similar to what youd see from a explosion ..And each year, ws see around 10 objects entering tha atmoephere that an equivalent to blast-- or about 2 a meten in diameter," he said. fit Page 27 May your heart and your home be warmed by the spirit of Christmas this season. 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