> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote: Now, if Spike would just finish
> his interstellar dust ablation calculations we would know
> how much matter gets lost due to "rampaging" space dust...
Dont give up on me. What is messing me up is trying to
figure out if the hydrodynamic impact models are applicable
to collisions with debris at .1c. I actually suspect it isnt a
good model, but I havent figured out a better one yet. The
hydrodynamic impact model is better suited to impacts at
a few km/sec to the upper experimental limits of perhaps
40 km/sec, whereas I am proposing using it at 30,000 km/sec.
If I blindly extend the conservation of momentum arguments,
then I find that interstellar hydrogen is going to be a much
bigger erosion causer than the little bit of dust out there. Theres
a guy at work I need to talk to who will be back first week
of January who is my guru in such matters.
Also, we are most likely reinventing the wheel here. I want
to get with it and find what has already been published.
spike
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