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Paper Published on Meteor Trails in the PNAS; Article in the CS Monitor: A paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) regarding using weather satellites to study atmospheric bolides (large meteors), in this case over Russia in February of 2013. The results demonstrate the general ability of Earth-viewing satellites to provide valuable insight on trajectory reconstruction. The full citation is: S. D. Miller, W. C. Straka III, A. S. Bachmeier, T. J. Schmit, P. T. Partain, and Y. Noh, 2013: Earth-viewing satellite perspectives on the Chelyabinsk meteor event PNAS October 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1307965110. The paper is available at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/15/1307965110.full.pdf+html. A Colorado State University (CSU) news release is at http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7044. An article in the Christian Science Monitor is at http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/1021/Meteor-that-bombed-Russia-left-telltale-tracks-seen-from-space. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; Steven Miller, CIRA, 970-491-8037) 

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Figure caption: Feng-Yun 2D (86.5°E) multispectral imagery of the Chelyabinsk meteor trail 0330 UTC collection time (0332 UTC actual scan time, or roughly 12 min after trail formation). The visible (0.73 μm), near-infrared (3.8 μm), “water vapor” (6.8 μm), and longwave-infrared (11.0 μm) bands are shown in (a–d), respectively. The signature of the meteor trail is present in each of the spectral bands. 

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