[meteorite-list] Apollo 13's Booster Impact

[David Entwistle]

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:08 -0700, Meteorites USA wrote:
> Saw this, though it was cool. But of course I have questions. ;)
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100322-apollo13booster.html
> 
> How fast was it going upon impact? Why is the crater only 30 meters in 
> diameter, while the booster was almost that long? Was the booster not 
> traveling fast enough to make a larger crater? What other factors were 
> in play to create the crater, material the booster was made of, size, 
> weight, speed, angle of descent, all of the above?

Hi Eric,

There's a lot of useful information here:

http://tinyurl.com/yaolze3

Best wishes,

-- 
David Entwistle