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To: MikeD

I don't have the ref. chart in front of me. Aren't gamma rays about 10^15 Hertz?


83 posted on 12/13/2006 7:25:09 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

X-Rays are around 10^15 Hz. Gammas are more like 10^20 Hz. They are penetrating suckers. I just know that we had a 1/4-inch tantalum shield ready to fly on New Horizons, but ditched it because it only dropped the gamma flux by 1/3 to 1/2. It wasn't worth the mass hit to fly it...


86 posted on 12/13/2006 9:13:47 PM PST by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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