> The particles freeze immediately in the cold environs of space > forming ice > particles. The particles are of small relative size and mass and > will > individually decay very quickly--within a day is a fairly good > guess. I recall reading that objects of a low mass -to- RCS value will delay less rapidly, than those of a high value (IOW, more mass, faster decay). I think this discussion came up when there was a report of a lost glove in space since the 1960's just coming down recently. I can't find any mention of this in my archive. It should be there! Can anyone help? When the water (and soon thereafter, ice particles) are expelled into space, does the H2O do in the opposite direction in which the Space Shuttle is traveling? If so, then wouldn't the particles travel at a slightly less orbital velocity compared to the Space Shuttle (which would hasten the decay) ? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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