On-demand meteor showers may be on the way

Published March 28, 2018 This content is archived.

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NBC News quotes John Crassidis, Samuel P. Capen Professor, about a Japanese company’s plans to create on-demand, artificial meteor showers in outer space.

“One of the things we don’t know very well is the upper atmosphere,” he said. “If you could eventually put sensors on every one of these things, we could get a sense of the density at certain altitudes, and that would be good science to have.”

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