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- From: pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson)
- Subject: Re: Ball lightning? (is there such a thing?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.181410.11632@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: 21 DEC 92 13:04:07
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- Ball Lightnig & Bead Lightning
- James Dale Barry
- Plenum Press
- 1980
- ISBN 0-306-40272-6
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- Reccomended, but by all means, your milage may vary...
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- A quick look did not find the "ball lightning floats down inside of a/c"
- incident. A couple of possibilities, for those with access to serious reference
- libraries, from Barry's (extensive) bibliography:
- Jennison, R C
- Ball Lightning, Nature, 1969, p 895
- Ball Lightning & After-Images, Nature, 1971, p 576
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- Uman, M A
- Some Comments on Ball Lightning
- Journal of Atmospheic & Terrestrial Physics, 1968, p 1245
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- Barry lists common colors as:
- red, red-yellow and yellow
- Less common are
- white, green & purple.
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- thanks
- dave pierson |the facts, as accurately as i can manage,
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