[meteorite-list] Genisis Crash

From: Charles O'Dale <codale0806_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 15 19:40:14 2004
Message-ID: <006f01c49b7d$57fe08e0$6e656718_at_mdguo5m3tdnvnv>

We all are hoping that a significant amount of science can still be salvaged
from the Genisis Probe. But, the crash did give us a great science
demonstration!

At approximately 300 km/hr at impact, the probe gave us a great
demonstration of what the terminal velosity of a meteorite is (after
atmosphere penetration had eliminated its cosmic velosity )!

Chuck
http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/earth_craters/index.html
Received on Wed 15 Sep 2004 07:40:11 PM PDT