Mesospheric plasma irregularities caused by the missile destruction on 9 December 2009

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• Main Authors: Kozlovsky, Alexander, Shalimov, Sergey, Lester, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; SUMMER ECHOES; IONOSPHERE; FIELD; Sodankylä
• Online Access: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JA024300; http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41997; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024300

On 9 December 2009 at about 07 UT a solid propellant 36.8 t ballistic rocket was self‐destroyed at an altitude of 170–260 km, at a distance of about 500 km to the east of Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO, 67°22′N, 26°38′E, Finland). After 2–3 h the SGO meteor radar (operating at a frequency 36...