Re: burn up

Mach 25.

Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:
bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
why do satellites burn up in earth's atmosphere as they fall down?

is it just the high velocity? i don't see how that would
cause combustion.


Friction


And they don't just fall they are circling the earth at a very high
speed (Sam would probably know exactly how fast :) ). They strike the
atmosphere at that speed so there is lots and lots of friction.

Why do you think the Space Shuttle has all of those fancy tiles on it's
bottom? They are not there to make it look nice. :)

--
Bruce E. Stemplewski
GarXface OCX and C++ Class Library for the Garmin GPS
www.stempsoft.com

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: View goes to declaration
    ... Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote: ... > I have read most of the post relating to this problem but they seem to ... in fact it even has a problem if the namespace block is defined anywhere. ...
    (microsoft.public.vstudio.general)
  • Re: Class View goes to declaration
    ... Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote: ... > I have read most of the post relating to this problem but they seem to ... in fact it even has a problem if the namespace block is defined anywhere. ...
    (microsoft.public.vsnet.ide)
  • Re: Garmin II+ and 12xl protocol?
    ... Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote: ... to declare #pragma packbefore the data structures, ... embeded VBA program in MS Access and convert to a stand alone C or C++ ...
    (sci.geo.satellite-nav)
  • Re: Objects only showing under library in VB - First attempt at ATL VC 7.0
    ... Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote: ... The library entry does show and there are objects under that. ... GarXface OCX and C++ Class Library for the Garmin GPS ...
    (microsoft.public.vc.atl)
Quantcast