From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #449 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 7 October 1995 Volume 05 : Number 449 In this issue: Re: triple sonic boom See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Xelex@aol.com Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 22:58:15 -0400 Subject: Re: triple sonic boom In Skunk Works Digest #447, Schulk Schulke wondered if the booms he felt near Biloxi on 27 FEB 83 were the result of nuclear testing. There were only two nuclear detonations in Mississippi, both underground inside the Tatum Salt Dome formation 28 miles southwest of Hattiesburg and four miles northeast of Baxterville. The first, code named SALMON, was fired on 22 October 1964 at the bottom of a 2,710-foot-deep sealed shaft. It had a yield of 53 kilotons, and blasted a 110-foot diameter spherical cavity within the salt formation. Two years later, on 3 December 1966, shot STERLING was fired in the center of the cavity created by SALMON. It had a yield of 0.38 kilotons. The purpose of the SALMON test was to study the effects of decoupling on seismic signals produced by the blast within the pre-existing cavity. The test site is on land owned by a hunting club. Peter W. Merlin Aerospace Archeology Field Research Team "THE X-HUNTERS" ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #449 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).