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Harvard SETI Project Helps ID Mystery Sound
- underseacables 3y agoAs it turns out, the Orionid meteor shower was just about at its peak in the skies over Massachusetts at that point. Given the average velocity of these particular meteors (66 km/s), [Avi] figures the source of the sound was a space rock of about a meter in diameter meeting its fiery end.
- ldarby 3y agoThere's something extremely satisfying to me about finding the source of a noise and I love how this one was recorded and analysed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, and https://xkcd.com/1590/ https://xkcd.com/1590/