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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Can You Hear A Shuttle Launch From Orlando?
- Message-ID: <33814@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:48:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.144321.797@tellab5.tellabs.com> <93025.091237TNEDDERH@ESOC.BITNET> <1993Jan25.175326.7006@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Downtown Orlando is about 35 miles from Merritt Island. Sound
- travels at 0.21 miles per second, so one could not hear anything
- until about 166 seconds (=2.8 minutes) after SRB ignition.
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- Anyone in Orlando want to listen for the sound and time the lag?
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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