Pahokee, Florida (IPP) - The brother and sister science team of Sean and Caitland Joyce have been working on the problem of meteor shower propulsion for years.
They were working with the 200 inch Mount Palomar telescope which was recently re-located to Pahokee, Florida after the telescope was sold on Ebay last year. The telescope had been sitting idle for months and the family that bought it had been using it as a place to hang their clothes in the house when they ran out of room in their closets.
Sean was looking through the telescope's eyepiece when suddenly an extraordinary period of "good seeing" opened up. There, through the eyepiece, Sean could clearly see a swarm of meteors with a clarity never before experienced by Earth bound observors.
He snapped some photographs and handed them over to his sister for closer inspection with the portable image resolution system she developed nine years ago when she was 4 years old.
The results were unquestionable. Each meteor was equipped with a tiny propeller which turned at a very high RPM and the medium through which the propeller moved was not air but rather, the solar wind.
Sean theorized that the reason no propeller had ever been found on a meteorite on earth was that the propellers melted away during the high friction entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
Caitland was not done with her work though. She did a freeze action snap shot of the rapidly rotating propeller and there, clearly visible on the side of the propeller were the words, "Made in Japan".
