Following the recent discovery of a lunar influence on rainfall and on the freezing nucleus count, it is now shown that the radar meteor rate varies in a similar way with lunar phase. The physical mechanism is uncertain, but an electrostatic charge on the moon could produce an effect on micrometeorites of the right order of magnitude.
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E. G. Bowen (1963) studied this question.
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