To: Investment Biker
I find it hard to believe that the foam slowed down enough to go from a delta-V of zero to 500 MPH in the short distance involved. Then again, it's hard to say without knowing the air density, shape of the chunk, and so forth.
22 posted on
07/07/2003 2:25:48 PM PDT by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: Sloth
At the speed the shuttle was moving, a 500mph relative velocity is a small perctage of the shuttle's speed, and, IIRC, the shuttle was still accellerating at that point.
84 posted on
07/08/2003 3:57:55 AM PDT by
eno_
To: Sloth
97 posted on
07/08/2003 6:16:39 PM PDT by
Resolute
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