Talk:2027: Lightning Distance

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All this is complete nonsense.

The radio burst is in the hundreds of kHz, a few Mhz at best, and cannot possibly be timed to a nanosecond.

Also the lightning path would have to be a circle centered on the observer to within 30 cm, aka one nanosecond.

OTOH locating lightning strokes to about a kilometer (or a microsecond) by the radio burst is quite practical. (to about 1000 kilometer)

See <www.blitzortung.org> for the practical results. Triangulation with more than three stations improves the accuracy.

Jan

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