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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.physics
Subject: Re: Thermonuclear Device
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 18:04:55 EST
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In article <497@anasazi.UUCP> will@anasazi.UUCP (Will Fuller) writes:
>The only "wow" number that I can think of off hand is that the Soviet
>Vennera lander was subject to temperatures in excess of the surface
>temperature of the sun (far cry from the interior) when it entered the
>Venusian atmosphere.

This is not really very impressive.  I believe a welding torch does the
same.  Anything which is heated enough to glow white is at about solar
surface temperature.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108