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To: don-o
"I think characterizing this as an impact hit would be premature at this point," Shannon said in a briefing tonight.

That means it's got a hole in the wing....

56 posted on 06/12/2007 5:17:29 PM PDT by kjam22 (see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
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To: kjam22
More from the link I posted above...

"In a situation in which a micrometeorite struck the wing, sensors around the one initially recording the impact also would record measurements. A graphical chart of the readings would look like a rock plopping into a lake with ripples receding in a ring. "But that wasn't the case with the singular sensor reading."

65 posted on 06/12/2007 5:20:27 PM PDT by don-o (“I don`t expect politicians to solve anyone's problems.The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
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