An unusual unexplained phenomenon in which cosmic rays enter the atmosphere producing up to 100 charged particles (several times as many as expected), but virtually no neutral pions. Centauro events had been observed at estimated incident energies of 1500 TeV (Sutton 1984, p. 131). A number of teams at the CERN collider looked for but did not observe any Centauro-type events (Sutton 1984, p. 159).
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