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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (71715)	10/13/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) of 176388

OT Comet shower ......any electrical engineers out there care to comment.....?. I'll give it a shot. Even a dense comet trail does not contain very many particles per square inch. It appears that a great many meteors hit during the leonid shower because you can see each one that is hitting the atmosphere above a few hundred miles, a target that is several thousand miles across. The chance of a particle hitting a target that is perhaps ten feet across is much less. It has happened but I would think it unlikely to hit more than one satellite per shower. The plasma trail is only effective in the lower atmosphere although there are several satellites in that region. Satellites are generally hardened against electromagnetic pulses since solar flares are a much more frequent event and induce a higher magnetic pulse than the plasma trail of a burning particle. In conclusion, there is an increased risk of damage to maybe one of the thousands of things floating around the planet but it is unlikely to bring technology as we know it to an end. TP

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