This is my hypothesis:
The glass pieces on the higher energy part of the impact causes the small pinpoint damage on the lower layer, as the ball gets deeper there is more surface to slow the ball down in a logarithmic fashion, then you get the traversal wave damage across the rest of the panel.
This is my hypothesis:
The glass pieces on the higher energy part of the impact causes the small pinpoint damage on the lower layer, as the ball gets deeper there is more surface to slow the ball down in a logarithmic fashion, then you get the traversal wave damage across the rest of the panel.
Has anyone ever tried catching oncoming space debris with their hand while outside of the space station?
agreed. that kind of pinpoint is similar to what happens when a large rock hits a windshield. I have had it happen to me a few times while driving down the highway.
Please, speeds of impact in outer space are completely different that impact speeds on the surface of the Earth. Outside of the Earth's atmosphere speeds can exceed 100 kilometers per SECOND. Impact speeds at the surface of the Earth for common impacts range from almost zero to maybe 300 kilometers per HOUR. This is orders of magnitudes lowers in energy. A 0.1 mm scale sized piece of debris in outer space at 20 kilometers per SECOND has huge amounts of kinetic energy and can kill a person. A golf ball sized piece of debris at 300 kilometers per HOUR might have the chance of killing a person if it hit them on the head. Please stop comparing meteor hits in orbit around the Earth with meteorites hitting the surface of the Earth. They are nowhere near comparable.
Dave's panel was hit with something going less than 300kph, period. Based on the damage it could have been a nut falling from an airplane, a small meteorite, or maybe a chunk of blue ice. Any debris found in the crater is useless for analysis to determine what hit the panel after a couple of days as crap is falling from the sky in the form of dust sized particles continuously.
Unless Dave finds a 2cm to golf ball sized meteorite, a nut or bolt, or feces in the yard, this will never be solved.
It's an early prototype of a batteriser that blew up, went suborbital and landed.
Has anyone ever tried catching oncoming space debris with their hand while outside of the space station?
Found a picture of a rock damaged solar panel, won't link it because of the political aspects of it.
Dave's panel was hit with something going less than 300kph, period. Based on the damage it could have been a nut falling from an airplane, a small meteorite, or maybe a chunk of blue ice.
Any debris found in the crater is useless for analysis to determine what hit the panel after a couple of days as crap is falling from the sky in the form of dust sized particles continuously.
Unless Dave finds a 2cm to golf ball sized meteorite, a nut or bolt, or feces in the yard, this will never be solved.
Has anyone ever tried catching oncoming space debris with their hand while outside of the space station?
Not possible I believe, because anything in same height orbit as the astronaut would be going at the same speed as the astronaut. It's not like stuff is just darting around all over the place out there, all things in the same orbit must have the same speed. And if something accelerate then you must change it's orbit.
Do kids have BB or pellet air guns in Australia ?
Found a picture of a rock damaged solar panel, won't link it because of the political aspects of it.
Yes, you can (not easily) smash panels with rocks and other things, but how many of them produce sharp protrusions out the back and ripple wave impact patterns on the back surface?
That requires a lot of force, something I greatly doubt you can get from something throwing something.
Has anyone ever tried catching oncoming space debris with their hand while outside of the space station?
Not possible I believe, because anything in same height orbit as the astronaut would be going at the same speed as the astronaut. It's not like stuff is just darting around all over the place out there, all things in the same orbit must have the same speed. And if something accelerate then you must change it's orbit.
WRONG! Just because something is at the same level of an astronaut does not mean it is in orbit. I can be going a delta of anything from 0 kph to over 100s of kilometers per second. It could be a piece of rock passing by the Earth, or something in orbit around the Earth that was further than the moon at its furthest. Please, stop talking about space and astronomy if you don't know about it.
Things like a AA battery from a sling shot and the like should also be considered. A D cell battery from a wrist rocket can do some hefty damage as a younger me could attest.
A BB or pellet would not do this damage.