From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 23:07:33 MST
>"Rockets, befitting their lofty status, spit sapphire dust, the
>product of aluminum-fuel combustion, into the Atmosphere."
Picture of Al2O3 Spheroid particle attached to an interplanetary
dust particle, captured in the stratosphere, can be seen here:
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/galileo/~graps/earth/properties.html
as well as the ground at Esrange, in Kiruna, Sweden, after their
launches (the fellow there told me that their launches lay a
blanket of Al2O3 'snow' that they have to clean up afterwards).
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