Anyone have an estimate for the acceleration of the shuttle when that piece broke off? Shouldn't it only be the delta velocity between gravitational pull and the shuttles upward motion? -----Original Message----- From: Dale Ireland [mailto:direland@drdale.com] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:27 PM To: Paul J Henney Cc: SeeSat-L Subject: RE: ice video I have handled some of that insulation. It is not like Styrofoam, it is very dense, more like wood. A chunk of it moving at the speed of sound would do serious damage to a tile. Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul J Henney [mailto:ph014a5309@blueyonder.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:24 PM > To: rfenske@swri.org; SeeSat-L@satobs.org > Subject: ice video > > > > > Hi, > > I've been watching over and over the video of the "insulation" (looked > more like ice to me) impacting the underside of the port wing and > shattering into a cloud of particles. > > One thought..could this debris have somehow damaged the covers to the > port undercarriage well, say displaced/damaged the cover? > > Would this tie in with the temp. readings and then drop outs of the > sensors in this area of the wing? > > I would imagine (from my model of the shuttle) that damage here would > pretty much be a route 1 access for high temp plasma into the main > structural members of the port wing assembly. > > > Pj > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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