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Article #7456Flashes in space (was Re: Cherenkov radiation)
From: J.R. Stoner
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 05:26
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 05:26
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In article <58@reality1.UUCP>, james@reality1.UUCP (james) writes: > I seem to recall that on one of the Apollo missions that astronauts reported > seeing strange flashes of light. This was a long time ago, and I wasn't even > in high school at the time, so I may just be the victim of a modern "old > wive's tale". Does anyone else remember anything about this and/or the > cause? > -- > James R. Van Artsdalen ...!ut-ngp!utastro!osi3b2!james "Live Free or Die" No. The famous story was about John Glenn's ride into orbit in the Gemini. He noted that sparkling objects were hovering outside the viewport of the capsule and speculated on what they could be. Since some of the particles were seen to be "following" the capsule it was though they were flecks of ice or paint from the Gemini itself. They could not have been Cerenkov flashes, as those are photon events and therefore could not be objects maintaining an orbit. -- From the manic ravings of J.R. (May the farce be with you) Stoner
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!cpro!asgard From: asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Flashes in space (was Re: Cherenkov radiation) Message-ID: <130@cpro.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 00:26:19 EST Article-I.D.: cpro.130 Posted: Wed Oct 29 00:26:19 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:16:37 EST References: <224@sri-arpa.ARPA> <Paul> <Schauble> <Schauble@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> <58@reality1.UUCP> Organization: CompuPro/VIASYN Corp. Lines: 19