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PRESSURE waves were obtained from one of two explosions set off at White Sands Missile Range (33° 27′ 1ST., 106° 34′ W.; elevation 4,900 ft. above mean sea-level), New Mexico. The first explosion occurred at 1100 p.m. M.S.T., October 28, 1965, and the second at 1100 a.m. M.S.T., November 2, 1965. These explosions were identical shots of 10 tons of TNT. Pressure waves from the first explosion were recorded at the Socorro Campus of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (34° 4′ N., 106° 54′ W.; elevation 4,617 ft. above mean sea-level) and at the Institute's Irving Langmuir Mountain Laboratory (33° 59′ N., 107° 11′ W.; elevation 10,630 ft. above mean sea-level). No pressure waves were recorded from the second event.
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BHARTENDU, MCCRORY, R. Atmospheric Pressure Wave from an Explosion. Nature 211, 396–398 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211396b0
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