Re: [meteorite-list] Effects of travel through space on comets?

2006-12-09 Thread Michael L Blood
Ed, Your comment about that diving from elevated heights "the water becomes awful hard" stirred a question in me that has been nagging me for some time. I have heard jumping into water at 100 feet can result in breaking your ankles and that at 300 feet the human body reacts to water

Re: [meteorite-list] Effects of travel through space on comets?

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
the figure for "normal" interstellar space, outside the solar system. You just can't get a decent vacuum anywhere these days. Sterling K. Webb ------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "E.P. Grondine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

[meteorite-list] Effects of travel through space on comets?

2006-12-08 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - I was just wondering if any of you have given any thought to this - While we generally think of space as a vacuum, in fact it is not. There are "dust" particles (some of them chonrdules?), and if I remember correctly, about 1 molecule of hydrogen per cubic meter - Now at normal spee