NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings from Moon Mission |
NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings from Moon Mission |
Nov 10 2009, 09:26 PM
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Nov 14 2009, 09:41 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Actually, thinking about this some more, I don't know how that 100kg H2O figure could have been derived unless it was with respect to the mass of the plume itself, which has to be less than the total mass excavated due to sidescatter, oblique ejecta trajectories, etc.
If that's true, how then did they estimate the mass of the plume since it appeared to differ so significantly in many respects from the pre-impact models? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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