Does anyone know if this meteor created any type of electromagnetic pulse?
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Meteor across Russian sky
- Thread starter Brian Bowers
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It did burn up fairly fast but no explosion. The damages were from those tremendous sonic booms.
In all the inside videos I've seen the lights didn't even flicker and car radio reception wasn’t affected.
In all the inside videos I've seen the lights didn't even flicker and car radio reception wasn’t affected.
I can't imagine how/why a meteor would produce an EMP but there is evidence that they produce RF in the E/VLF spectrum. This might explain why some very bright fireballs have reportedly been accompanied by a hissing/sputtering noise which occurs in real time with the signting (as opposed to being delayed by seconds/minutes due to the difference between the speed of light and that of sound and the distance between the object and the observer (the way thunder lags distant lightning).
(source link below text):
"...eyewitness report electrophonic sound PRIOR to the acoustic shock -- that is, during the brightest flaring of the fireball. This is a at-long-last well-established effect of plasma-generated radio noise coupling into near-observer physical objects and creating a hissing or whooshing sound. It occurs simo with the visual flares, seems to come from 'all around' [not from above], has been reported for centuries by some bright fireball witnesses and pooh-poohed by scientists until work by Colin Keay and others established its validity.
The situation finally started to change in 1980, when C.S.L. Keay presents the theory that meteors can emit the ELF/VLF radio waves [2]. According to his laboratory experiments, these electromagnetic waves can be transformed into sound on ordinary objects around the observer. The ELF/VLF radiation [4] would be produced by trapping and tangling Earth's magnetic field in the turbulent plasma tail of an ablating meteoroid. Soon after, using this theory, Bronshten gave theoretical prediction that a meteor with minimal brightness of -12m, (about equal to the brightness of a full Moon) is necessary for production of electrophonic sounds [3]."
http://www.gefsproject.org/electrophones/index_history.html
(source link below text):
"...eyewitness report electrophonic sound PRIOR to the acoustic shock -- that is, during the brightest flaring of the fireball. This is a at-long-last well-established effect of plasma-generated radio noise coupling into near-observer physical objects and creating a hissing or whooshing sound. It occurs simo with the visual flares, seems to come from 'all around' [not from above], has been reported for centuries by some bright fireball witnesses and pooh-poohed by scientists until work by Colin Keay and others established its validity.
The situation finally started to change in 1980, when C.S.L. Keay presents the theory that meteors can emit the ELF/VLF radio waves [2]. According to his laboratory experiments, these electromagnetic waves can be transformed into sound on ordinary objects around the observer. The ELF/VLF radiation [4] would be produced by trapping and tangling Earth's magnetic field in the turbulent plasma tail of an ablating meteoroid. Soon after, using this theory, Bronshten gave theoretical prediction that a meteor with minimal brightness of -12m, (about equal to the brightness of a full Moon) is necessary for production of electrophonic sounds [3]."
http://www.gefsproject.org/electrophones/index_history.html
OK, I wasn't sure what to call it, but I wondered if there was any type of effect from the meteor that would interrupt electric, phone, satellite or other types of electronic communication. To quote a LA Times article, it says "What experts agree was a meteor or a small asteroid wreaked havoc in the densely populated and highly industrialized Urals, injuring hundreds, causing millions dollars' worth of damage, and disrupting phone and internet communication."
Maybe and more likely the "disrupting phone and internet communication" was caused by everyone on their devices at once.
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