[meteorite-list] Apollo 13's Booster Impact

From: David Entwistle <david_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:42:03 +0000
Message-ID: <1269718924.10578.4.camel_at_ubuntu>

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:08 -0700, Meteorites USA wrote:
> Saw this, though it was cool. But of course I have questions. ;)
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100322-apollo13booster.html
>
> How fast was it going upon impact? Why is the crater only 30 meters in
> diameter, while the booster was almost that long? Was the booster not
> traveling fast enough to make a larger crater? What other factors were
> in play to create the crater, material the booster was made of, size,
> weight, speed, angle of descent, all of the above?

Hi Eric,

There's a lot of useful information here:

http://tinyurl.com/yaolze3

Best wishes,

-- 
David Entwistle

Received on Sat 27 Mar 2010 03:42:03 PM PDT