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- From: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Questions About Nickel-Iron Meteorites
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.171450.12454@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 17:14:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Nov13.171450.12454
- References: <69421@cup.portal.com>
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- Reply-To: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Organization: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
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- In article <69421@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
- |>Path: pnl-oracle!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm
- |>From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
- |>Newsgroups: sci.astro
- |>Subject: Questions About Nickel-Iron Meteorites
- |>Message-ID: <69421@cup.portal.com>
- |>Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:04:34 PST
- |>Article-I.D.: cup.69421
- |>Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- |>I have some questions about the Wilmarstatten (sp?) patterns in
- |>meteorites. These are the lines which appear if you cut a nickel-iron
- |>meteorite, polish the surface, then treat it with acids or something.
- |>You can see lots of good examples at the Smithsonian.
- |>
- |>I remember hearing somewhere that metal meteorites cool very slowly
- |>-- over many years or even centuries -- and that these patterns are
- |>caused by the large grain structure which develops.
- |>
- |>This has always bothered me. I don't see how they could cool so slowly.
- |>Although surrounded by vacuum, which is an excellent thermal insulator,
- |>meteorites are also surround by the cold blackness of space. I would
- |>guess that a quantity of molten metal placed in space would freeze solid
- |>and become cold to the touch within a few days at most.
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- Why does the shuttle orbit with the bay doors open and in the shade?
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- Heat ... the disipation of heat is very hard to do with no media
- short of IR. You must have a medium to remove heat and a vacuum
- has none. Also it is cold in only one direction ... away from the
- Sun.
- RJ
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