More on Cosmic Snowflakes, Optical Analysis of Impact Features in Aerogel From the Orbital Debris Collection Experiment on the Mir Station, page 31, table 1 http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/TM-1999-209372.pdf Ignoring the orbital debris impacts (Flakes in the table). For ODC tray 1 plus the additional orbital velocity of the MIR space station. The percentages of Dust tracks

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:13:31 +0000, tapwater wrote: "All the energy of the impact absorbed by the extremely cold, more massive Cosmic Snowflake." I would prefer to say energy is transferred, rather than absorbed. A comet that is almost exclusively water ice, in the shape of a snowflake is a wonderful thought to contemplate. Maybe, somewhere out there, there is a blizzard of

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:13:31 +0000, tapwater wrote: "All the energy of the impact absorbed by the extremely cold, more massive Cosmic Snowflake." I would prefer to say energy is transferred, rather than absorbed. A comet that is almost exclusively water ice, in the shape of a snowflake is a wonderful thought to contemplate. Maybe, somewhere out there, there is a blizzard of