Word: meteormen
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...field, taking in one-tenth of the area of the visible sky. Where earlier meteor cameras were blind to any meteor smaller than a marble, the new model will photograph the tracks of meteors as small as buckshot. As soon as a duplicate camera is completed, the meteormen can compare their films and tell by triangulation the distance and altitude of each meteor trail...
...When meteors shoot through the air, they get white hot and most of them evaporate. This same thing happens to some extent with guided missiles. The German V-2 actually lost some of its metal by evaporation while descending through the atmosphere. By learning more about this effect, the meteormen hope to help the missile designers keep their "birds" from evaporating...
This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...
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