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From: eec3@ihuxx.UUCP (e. cumberland)
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Subject: Re: SRB's
Message-ID: <963@ihuxx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 03:18:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 03:18:52 1986
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> Just heard they are saying that it WAS a burn through of the left SRB, and
> that it can be seen from  other camera angles.
> 
> Can anyone explain why off earth the thing didn't go tumbling madly
> after seperating? How there was no apparent sign of flame from the side of
> the SRB after seperating?
> 

The pictures of the SRB burnthrough show the fame at what appears to
be a horizontal seam in the SRB.  If this seam was seriously
weakened by the burnthrough then may be it was blown off by the
explosion, and the upper portion continued on???

				Edwin E. Cumberland III