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Skunk Works Digest        Saturday, 7 October 1995      Volume 05 : Number 449

In this issue:

	Re: triple sonic boom

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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"

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