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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107
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To: average joe who wrote (466)2/8/2003 10:31:10 PM
From: Bill Jackson   of 627
 
Joe, I doubt it. A lightning stroke implies a path. A small body like the shuttle would not accumulate much of a charge, compared with a cloud of 100,000 times the volume.
I am not sure what that photographer got? It may be just a jiggled exposure of the ionised trail of the shuttle re-entry.
As for a charge transiting from A to B with the shuttle in the way, again not that likelly, however a long ionised trail with extra burning off bits might conduct one of those red sprites or blue jets along it's length?
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Bill
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