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SUMMARY:WEIRD LIGHTNING: SPRITES, ELVES AND OTHER STRANGE THINGS FOUND IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
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 Lecture by Joseph R. Dwyer\n
 Abstract: Lightning 
 strikes our planet about a billion times per 
 year, killing as many people as hurricanes 
 or tornadoes. Surprisingly, despite its familiarity, 
 we still don't understand many things 
 about lightning, including how it gets started 
 inside thunderstorms and how it travels such 
 large distances through air. In addition, 
 many new and strange phenomena have been discovered 
 in and around thunderstorms, including 
 colossal jellyfish-like structures near the 
 edge of space called sprites, enormous, expanding 
 rings of light called elves, bizarre, bluish 
 jets shooting out of cloud tops, powerful 
 flashes of gamma rays emanating from deep inside 
 storms, and large but nearly-invisible 
 discharges called dark lightning. In this presentation, 
 I will talk about the mysteries of 
 lightning and other weird things that lightning 
 does.\n\n
 Price: FREE\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact phone: 517-908-7573\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/talk-17october.html\n
LOCATION:Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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