A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020 The Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) was the first high-power lidar flown and operated successfully on board a balloon platform. As part of the PMC Turbo payload, the instrument acquired high-resolution backscatter profiles of polar mesospheric clouds ...
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South African Journal of Science, 2021 Several dozen stones of an ordinary chondrite meteorite fell in and around the town of Benenitra in southwestern Madagascar during the early evening of 27 July 2018, minutes after a widely observed meteor fireball (bolide) transit and detonation.
Roger L. Gibson +8 more
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The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2022 The Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE) observed polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) along the Arctic circle between Sweden and Canada during the balloon flight of PMC Turbo in July 2018.
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Historical Bolide Infrasound Dataset (1960–1972)
DataWe present the first fully curated, publicly accessible archive of infrasonic records from ten large bolide events documented by the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center’s global microbarometer network between 1960 and 1972.
Elizabeth A. Silber, Rodney W. Whitaker
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, 1997 We present a review of the literature on the subject of a possible collision between the Earthand a meteorite or comet. We emphasize the global effects when sufficient energy is involved.We propose several types of human actions adapted to the physico-chemical nature of thecollider bolide.
Dubois, François
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Usi traslati di termini astronomici. "Bolide" nella stampa italiana e spagnola del XX secolo
Philologia Hispalensis, 2014 This article presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of the technical terms bolide y bólido as used in 20th c. Italian and Spanish press, respectively.
Paola Capponi
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Rock art and archaeoastronomy in Morocco: preliminary observations [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to make public the exceptional discovery in the province of Essaouira (Morocco) of three petroglyphs engraved with an original subject in Moroccan rock art.
Ibhi,A. +4 more
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A preliminary analysis of the Shangri-La Bolide on 2017 Oct 4
Earth and Planetary Physics, 2018 At 12:07 UT (8:07 pm China Standard Time) on 2017 Oct 4, a bright bolide was widely observed in the Shangri-La region of the Province of Yunnan, China (Figure 1).
Quan-Zhi Ye
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A Geologic Si‐O‐C Pathway to Incorporate Carbon in Silicates
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 47-54., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Alexandra Navrotsky +2 more
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