Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aps..dpp.q7f08m&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, November 16-20, 1998 New Orleans, LA, abstract #Q7F.08
Physics
Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
On 22 Aug., 1985, about 9 a.m., I took White Pine Fork trail (Wasatch Range), hiked to Red Pine Fork, Thence Maybird Gulch and travelled to head of Maybird to its s.w. saddle just n. of Little Matterhorn Pk. on spur that separates Maybird from Hogum Fork. (These 4 subcanyons each run 5 km s. of Little Cottonwoood Canyon road to s. main ridge.) From there it is a burden to hike over, around granite boulders to head of Hogum Fork, but after collecting rock samples I reached canyon's ridgecrest center at 6 p.m., being s.e.-most point of canyon where granite sheets jut some 200 ft nearly vertically for about 700m along ridge crest. Rather than return same route I tried to descend down Hogum altho no trail exists in this subcanyon. Reaching knee of canyon where stream begins (becomes visible 8600 ft.) at 9:30 p.m. I could not proceed further using flashlight being unable to avoid precipitous regions. At 10 p.m. I started bonfire to keep warm all night, layed on horizontal granite rock and watched stars revolve w. for next 8 hr. Near midnight, as I observed 3 close stars (each separated by about 30'), near zenith and and of about equal magnitude, near their centroid a new star flashed on; it was a flare star. It lasted for about 1/2 minute, oscillated (1 - 2 sec period) most violently in luminosity at onset and extinction but was never as bright as our 3 or 4 brightest planets. I watched continuously for another 15 min and it blinked on-off a 2nd time, oscillated in intensity five or six times and then blinked-off. I maintained a constant watch for another hour but it never reappeared. On first apparition I though an aircraft pilot had switched on-off navigation lights, but no motion occured. Smoke from fire drifted over view forcing me to stand and move away. At 6:30 a.m. (no sleep) I was able to continue descent. Error in printing of title only,* made it unintelligible. *K.L. McDonald, Bul.Am.Phys.Soc., 42 (1), 174, 1997.
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