Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.space,net.astro Subject: Re: fake comet Message-ID: <6329@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 16:09:25 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6329 Posted: Tue Dec 4 16:09:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:48:29 EST References: <1510@drutx.UUCP> <529@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 9 Xref: watmath net.space:3478 net.astro:368 Was not this same sort of thing (a high-altitude release of a barium cloud) done many years back by means of an Aerobee or some other early research rocket, like one of those two-stagers built using a V-2 as the first stage? As I recall, the results from that were relatively unimpressive, though some feared that it would create a permanent glowing cloud that would harm astronomical observation. Will