{"id":6612,"date":"2015-06-27T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2015-07-19T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:53:57","slug":"man-made-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/27\/man-made-meteors\/","title":{"rendered":"Man-made Meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"

from AFP via Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Wishing on a shooting star in Japan with man-made meteors<\/h1>\n

by Miwa Suzuki<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday? One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.<\/p>\n

And, say scientists, it’s not just about painting huge pictures on the night-sky that would be visible to millions of people; artificial meteors could help us to understand a lot more about Earth’s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I’m thinking of streams of meteors that are rare in nature,” Okajima told AFP in an interview.<\/p>\n

“It is artificial but I want to make really beautiful ones that can impress viewers,” she said.<\/p>\n

In collaboration with scientists and engineers at Japanese universities, the ALE team is developing a satellite that will orbit the Earth and eject dozens of balls, a few centimetres (an inch) in diameter, at a time.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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