Домой GRASP/Japan World's first artificial shooting stars gearing up for debut over Hiroshima

World's first artificial shooting stars gearing up for debut over Hiroshima

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Despite their magical reputation, shooting stars are just pieces of space debris from millimeters to a few centimeters thick that fly into Earth’s atmosphere and brightly burn up into nothing.
Despite their magical reputation, shooting stars are just pieces of space debris from millimeters to a few centimeters thick that fly into Earth’s atmosphere and brightly burn up into nothing.
ALE simply recreates that phenomenon by firing their own specially made pellets through the atmosphere in such a way that they burn up in a designated section of sky. However, since ALE’s pellets are artificial they can also be designed to burn brighter and longer than natural meteors in a color of the customer’s choosing, lasting for about five to ten seconds each, and being visible within a 100 kilometer (62 mile) radius.

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