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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: fake comet
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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