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Science 8 November 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3854, pp. 666 - 667
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3854.666
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Photograph of a Close Lightning Flash

Richard E. Orville 1

1 State University of New York, Albany 12203

A lightning flash has been photographed striking a European ash tree at a distance of 60 meters. The tree sustained no external physical damage. The probability of obtaining this photograph is estimated to be 10-3, or once in 1000 years.

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