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Re: another 2010 mistake [message #112780] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:54
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> As long as we're at it (the "mistakes" are about the most diverting
> features of this fiasco) how about the scene when the space-walking
> astronauts first approach the docking bay of the Discovery?  It's
> covered with some kind of space dust, like dirty clay, and one
> of their first actions is to brush the surface with their hands.
> This space dust is rather earthbound, for it doesn't scatter in a
> cloud as you might expect (assuming that dust would settle on a
> spaceship anyway) but acts remarkably like the dust on my coffee
> table, being attracted to the surface, just like gravity.

	That is because the dust and the Discovery is electrically charged.
The effects between Jupiter and Io produce a great deal of sulfer dust 
and causes large static discharges between them. Every time Discovery
passed between them, it was charged and some dust built up. This is what
was causing the orbit to decay. This is all in the book. Read it!

					Randy Buckland
					Research Triangle Institute
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