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Remembering the Vela Incident
A dual payload of Vela satellites deployed in low Earth orbit. Image credit: NASA
36 years ago today, a strange event was detected over the Southern Indian Ocean that remains controversial. On September 22nd, 1979, an American Vela Hotel satellite detected an atmospheric explosion over the southern Indian Ocean near the Prince Edward Islands. The event occurred at 00:53 Universal Time on the pre-dawn nighttime side of the Earth. Vela’s gamma-ray and x-ray detectors rang out in surprise, along with its two radiometers (known as Bhangmeters) which also captured the event.(…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2015. | Permalink | One comment |
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