Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Challenger Destruct Message-ID: <1951@peora.UUCP> Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 09:10:19 EST Article-I.D.: peora.1951 Posted: Fri Jan 31 09:10:19 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 07:40:28 EST References: <540@ihlpl.UUCP> <8500015@uiucdcs> Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl Lines: 28 > If one had the theory that one of the solid rockets flawed and burned > a hole in the liquid main tank, you would have seen a torch of flames > coming from the of one or the other solid rockets. The views > of them as they continued to burn and move on, only showed flames from > the tail, where the flames should have been. But, this isn't true! In two separate frames, bright flames are visible appearing briefly around the body of the main fuel tank, near the forward point where the SRBs attach to the main tank. They appear to come from the far side of the tank, the side where the SRB that wasn't visible was attached. It would also seem possible that a lot of the vapor visible at the bottom of the fuel tank was actually coming from the far side of the tank, since it is difficult to find any point of origin for the vapors on the visible surface of the tank. It was also the far SRB which followed the most anomalous trajectory; it appeared to have been rotated out of its axis of flight, until it was struck by the air moving by it, which righted it again. By comparison, the near SRB remains visible in several frames, moving forward in a less disturbed trajectory; eventually it simply begins to roll out of its original path. -- UUCP: Ofc: jer@peora.UUCP Home: jer@jerpc.CCUR.UUCP CCUR DNS: peora, pesnta US Mail: MS 795; CONCURRENT Computer Corp. SDC; (A Perkin-Elmer Company) 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 xxxxx4xxx "There are other places that are also the world's end ... But this is the nearest ... here and in England." -TSE