Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Orbiter tiles affected by rain?
Message-ID: <1989May24.030028.16300@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1015@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 03:00:28 GMT

In article <1015@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
>... Surely 250mph rain can't be as bad as 17000mph air
>which the orbiter meets on re-entry?

The 250mph rain is not as hot but is much denser.  Yes, it's worse.
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