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Wescott et al. 1980
Wescott, E.M., Stenbaek-Nielsen, H.C., Hallinan, T.J., Deehr, C.S., Romick, G.J., Olson, J.V., Roederer, J.G. and Sydora, R. (1980). A high-altitude barium radial injection experiment. Geophysical Research Letters 7: doi: 10.1029/GL007i012p01037. issn: 0094-8276.

A rocket launched from Poker Flat, Alaska, carried a new type of high-explosive barium shaped charge to 571 km, where detonation injected a thin disk of barium vapor with high velocity nearly perpendicular to the magnetic field. The TV images of the injection are spectacular, revealing three major regimes of expanding plasma which showed early instabilities in the neutral gas. The most unusual effect of the injection is a peculiar rayed barium-ion structure lying in the injection plane and centered on a 5 km ''black hole'' surrounding the injection point. Preliminary electrostatic computer simulations show a similar rayed development.

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