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A hypothetical dusty plasma mechanism of Hessdalen lights
Gerson S. Paiva, Carlton A. Taft, 2010. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 72(16), 1200–1203.
Proposes that the lights are dusty plasmas, with ionisation of air and dust in the valley (attributed to radon decay) forming luminous clusters.
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Paiva, G. S., & Taft, C. A. (2010). A hypothetical dusty plasma mechanism of Hessdalen lights. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 72(16), 1200–1203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.022
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Paiva, Gerson S. and Carlton A. Taft. “A hypothetical dusty plasma mechanism of Hessdalen lights.” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 72(16), 1200–1203 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.022.