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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
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Subject: Re: Darren Leigh at the Edge of Space! :Part I
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Date: 26 Mar 88 20:34:40 GMT
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After I wrote a reply last night to Tim Sevener's article, I checked
the atmospheric tables in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.  I
found that at high altitudes the scale height of the atmosphere increases.
That is, the real state of the upper atmosphere is exactly opposite
what Tim claimed: not an abrupt end, but an ever slowing decrease in
density.



   John Carr           "No one wants to make a terrible choice
   jfc@athena.mit.edu   On the price of being free"           -- Neil Peart