Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!datapg!sewilco
From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Discovery's launch: Am I imagining things?
Message-ID: <1903@datapg.MN.ORG>
Date: 2 Oct 88 05:35:09 GMT
References: <1104@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <4305@cadnetix.COM>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN
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In article <4305@cadnetix.COM> beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres) writes:
>info without permission :-).  This question was asked of Royce Mitchell
>of Marshall, he said it was due to a physics principle called reverse flow
>seperation.  As the orbiter rolls, the SRB's exhausts get mixed together
>creating a collision of hot particles.  These collisions give the effect

Oh, I think I get it.  Where the plumes meet, some of the flow can be
forced upward (particularly at in thin atmosphere where there is less
resistance?).

             SRB                SRB
             !  !               !  !
             !  !               !  !
             !  !               !  !
              /\                 /\

             /||\               /||\
            /||||\      ^      /||||\
           /||||||\    /^\    /||||||\
          /||||||||\  /^^^\  /||||||||\
         /||||||||||\/^^^^^\/||||||||||\
        /||||||||||||\^^^^^/||||||||||||\
       /||||||||||||||\^^^/||||||||||||||\
      /||||||||||||||||\^/||||||||||||||||\
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