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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: SRB's
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 14:28:15 EST
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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?

I can't explain the former, but on the low-magnification film that was
originally released, you can see the extra plume.  It appears on the right
booster (which is on the left side of the picture) immediately after the
explosion.  There is clearly a plume coming out of the side of the booster
in the right place, and the loop in the contrail is in the right direction
according to Newton.

C. Wingate