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Subject: Re: Aquiring a charge in space ?
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 01:54:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 01:54:17 1986
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In article <860108-085152-4618@Xerox> you write:
>	If a body is in low Earth orbit will the surfaces of the object become
>charged by triboelectric effect from collisions with the molecules that
>are present, albiet scattered  & few in number compared to atmosphere,
>in the space it passes through ?    Is there a reasonable guess as to
>the charge level that might result.  I expect that there might be some
>equilibrium level that would be reached, but that is just a guess.

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