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air shower

shower of particles from a high energy cosmic ray hitting Earth's atmosphere
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air shower

Summary

air shower is an astrophysical process[1]. It draws 52 Wikipedia views per month (astrophysical_process category, ranking #7 of 13).[2]

Key Facts

  • air shower is credited with the discovery of Bruno Rossi[3].
  • air shower's image is recorded as Protonshower.jpg[4].
  • air shower's image is recorded as Air shower detected in a cloud chamber.jpg[5].
  • air shower's instance of is recorded as astrophysical process[6].
  • air shower's subclass of is recorded as electromagnetic shower[7].
  • air shower's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1934-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • air shower's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/053mhh[9].
  • air shower's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/extensive-air-shower[10].
  • air shower's has immediate cause is recorded as cosmic radiation[11].
  • air shower's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 327[12].
  • air shower's schematic is recorded as AirShower.svg[13].
  • air shower's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 151456734[14].
  • air shower's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C151456734[15].

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Works and Contributions

air shower is credited with the discovery of Bruno Rossi[3].

Why It Matters

air shower draws 52 Wikipedia views per month (astrophysical_process category, ranking #7 of 13).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_air-shower_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{air shower}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/air-shower}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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