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unusual facts about Gamma Ray



Kasperi Heikkinen

As a touring musician, Kasperi Heikkinen has played on part of the German Power Metal band Gamma Ray's Majestic tour in 2006 following an injury to Henjo Richter.

Keeper of the Seven Keys

"I Want Out" remains one of the band's most popular songs, and has been covered by Gamma Ray, HammerFall, LORD and Sonata Arctica.

Malaria vaccine

From 1989 to 1999, eleven volunteers recruited from the United States Public Health Service, United States Army, and United States Navy were immunized against Plasmodium falciparum by the bites of 1001 to 2927 mosquitos that had been irradiated with 15,000 rads of gamma rays from a Co-60 or Cs-137 source.

Mandy Meyer

He is currently working with a new band formed in by Dennis Ward and Kosta Zafiriou (from Pink Cream 69), with Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween) and Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray / ex-Helloween) which is called Unisonic.

Nuclear and radiation accidents

In Cochabamba a defective gamma radiography set was transported in a passenger bus as cargo.

Paul Ulrich Villard

In 1903, it was Ernest Rutherford who proposed to call Villard's rays gamma rays because they were far more penetrating than the alpha rays and beta rays which he himself had already differentiated and named (in 1899) on the basis of their respective penetrating powers.


see also

Cherenkov radiation

The Cherenkov radiation from these charged particles is used to determine the source and intensity of the cosmic ray or gamma ray, which is used for example in the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), by experiments such as VERITAS, H.E.S.S. and MAGIC.

Commonly used gamma-emitting isotopes

Many years ago radium-226 and radon-222 sources were used as gamma-ray sources for industrial radiography: for instance a radon-222 source was used to examine the mechanisms inside an unexploded V-1 flying bomb, while some of the early Bathyspheres could be examined using radium-226 to check for cracks.

Denis Denisenko

Born in 1971 in Moscow, Denisenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT or Phystech) in 1993 with a Master of Science in Astrophysics and a Diploma: Spectral Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by PHEBUS Instrument of the Granat observatory.

Gingin Observatory

The telescopes primary objective is to photograph gamma ray bursts in the Universe and does this with two NASA satellites, the Swift and Glast.

GLAST

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

HAWC

High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment, a gamma-ray observatory in Mexico known by the acronym of HAWC.

HEAO Program

The High Energy Astronomy Observatory Program was a NASA program of the late 1970s and early 1980s that included a series of three large low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft for X-ray and Gamma-Ray astronomy and Cosmic-Ray investigations.

High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Experiment or High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (also known as HAWC) is a gamma-ray observatory located near the Sierra Negra volcano in Puebla, Mexico.

Interstellar travel

Recently Friedwardt Winterberg has suggested a means of converting an imploding matter-antimatter plasma into a highly collimated beam of gamma-rays - effectively a gamma-ray laser - which would very efficiently transfer thrust to the space vehicle's structure via a variant of the Mössbauer effect.

Prompt

PROMPT Telescopes, an array of telescopes located at CTIO which are designed to rapidly observe gamma-ray burst afterglows simultaneously in multiple filters

Uli Kusch

That time Uli himself formed and produced with Gamma Ray guitarist Henjo Richter the Rainbow tribute band Catch the Rainbow and soon other musicians joined them.