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Wishing on a shooting star in Japan with man-made meteors
- danboarder 11y agoThe Uber of meteors... only in Japan. From the article: "One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos. Lena Okajima, who holds a doctorate in astronomy, says her company -- ALE -- is intending to launch a micro satellite that can eject shooting stars at exactly the right time and place to put on a celestial show. These balls -- whose chemical formula is a closely-guarded secret -- will race through the atmosphere at around 7-8 kilometres (up to five miles) a second, glowing brightly from the friction created by smashing into the air."