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Paiva and Taft propose a dusty-plasma model of the Hessdalen lights

Name: Paiva and Taft propose a dusty-plasma model of the Hessdalen lights
Start: 2010
Location: Hessdalen, Norway

When: 2010
Where: Hessdalen, Norway
Sources: 2 public sources

The Hessdalen valley, whose lights Paiva and Taft modeled as dusty plasma Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Physicists G.S. Paiva and C.A. Taft proposed in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics that the Hessdalen lights are clusters of Coulomb crystals in a plasma made by radon decay ionizing dusty air. It is a theoretical model, not an observation.

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OtherA hypothetical dusty plasma mechanism of Hessdalen lights (Paiva and Taft) (opens in a new tab)U.S. EPA HERO database / 2010
OtherA hypothetical dusty plasma mechanism of Hessdalen lights, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. 72(16) (opens in a new tab)Elsevier / 2010

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