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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Why does the mention of the eight "events" make me nervous?

Makes me less nervous, actually. As RW suggested above, it's more indicative of thermal effects than of impact (you'd only expect one of those). The Shuttle bends A LOT due to thermal effects -- cold on one side, hot on the other.

If they changed the Shuttle attitude to do the tests, different places would become hot from the sunlight, and a change in the bending profile might very well occur. It would almost certainly be accompanied by multiple "ticks" that would be picked up by these sensors. (And I think they're new sensors ... meaning that this could have happened all along, and this is just the first time it was picked up.)

168 posted on 09/19/2006 11:00:26 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
As RW suggested above, it's more indicative of thermal effects than of impact (you'd only expect one of those). The Shuttle bends A LOT due to thermal effects -- cold on one side, hot on the other.

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm trying to undertand clearly. Do you mean something similiar to the noises/creaks my (old) house makes sometimes?
173 posted on 09/19/2006 11:06:32 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.)
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