Fireball Spikes: The Plumbbob Boltzmann and Franklin Rope Tricks

摘要

Some experiments, aptly called rope tricks, were performed on Plumbbob events Boltzmann and Franklin to further studies on spikes on fireball photography. These form on long cables emanating from tower or balloon cabs. The most interesting data resulted from a black cable between a weather balloon and the tower cab on Boltzmann. The report contains results previously available in internal Los Alamos documents written in 1957. (ERA citation 09:020716)