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In article <ZOWIE.92Dec16182405@daedalus.stanford.edu> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
] If you drop a Timex watch (``takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'\ '') from
] a height of 1m onto a cement floor, carefully holding it so it falls flat,
] and it stops in 1mm, then it underwent 1000G's of acceleration!  
] 
] And, being a Timex, it (usually) still works!
] 
] We talked about this about a year ago on sci.physics.  Everyday things
] undergo a lot more acceleration than we give 'em credit for.
] 
] Other examples:  a light aluminum hunting arrow experiences 1000G's on 
] release from a good compound bow; a car piston with a 10cm stroke 
] undergoes 900G's at the top and bottom of its stroke, at 3000rpm (and
] a whopping 3600 at 6000 rpm!); and dropped personal stereos routinely 
] take >300 G's and survive.

  I think there's a bit of a difference here. You're talking about forces
  and accelerations experienced for milliseconds at a time. This probe
  will be experiencing this accleration for several minutes! Things
  can be damaged to prolonged exposure to acceleration!

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