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A small rocket blasted off from Virginia this weekend, carrying nothing. But the launch was carefully timed so the motor's final burst would release 200 pounds of aluminium oxide -- the white, powdery material left behind on rusting aluminium -- into the ionosphere.
The result: a magnificent cloud at the edge of space that scientists used to learn more about electrically charged dust particles, a phenomenon that plays a role in fields as diverse as semiconductor manufacturing to the study of Saturn's rings.

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A series of spooky lights above parts of the northeastern United States Saturday sparked a flurry of phone calls to authorities and television news stations.

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If you were outside Saturday night around 8:00 PM, you may have noticed something strange in the sky.  A large dull glow with a cone around it lingered in the sky for approximately one minute, only to disappear into a greyish haze that lingered in the sky for about 2 minutes before fading.

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Staff at several National Weather Service offices in the Northeast received calls of strange lights after NASA launched a rocket from Virginia, a meteorologist with the weather service in Upton said.
And along the East Coast, reports of the bright, cone-shaped light poured into weather stations and news organizations, a Boston TV station said on its Web site.

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Dozens Report Strange Lights Over Mass.
Dozens of people along the coast reported seeing strange, cone-shaped lights in the sky in the minutes following the 7:46 p.m. rocket launch, which was conducted at a NASA facility in Virginia.
Several people in Massachusetts also contacted WCVB-TV on Saturday to report seeing the unidentified lights, including callers from Burlington, Bellingham, Belmont and Weston.

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Launch of the Black Brant XII rocket at Wallops (SOFT AUDIO)
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The Charged Aerosol Release Experiment also known as CARE, is a project run by NASA which will use a rocket to release of dust in the upper atmosphere to form a dusty plasma in space. NASA plans to trigger cloud formation around the rocket's exhaust particles.

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