| 11. | Micrometeorites are tiny high-speed particles found in high concentrations at certain altitudes.
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| 12. | In addition the cable shape must be constructed to withstand micrometeorites and space junk.
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| 13. | The acoustic micrometeorite detector detected 145 impacts of cosmic dust in 78, 750 seconds.
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| 14. | Instrumentation consisted of a cosmic ray detection package and a ring of micrometeorite erosion gauges.
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| 15. | If space is full of micrometeorites, one would expect them to frequently damage satellites.
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| 16. | :: They had micrometeorite shields.
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| 17. | I wonder just what the effect of micrometeorites would be over say a 40 year period.
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| 18. | They also installed a device to measure space radiation and removed samples of cosmic dust and micrometeorites.
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| 19. | Ice is collected and then melted and filtered so the micrometeorites can be extracted under a microscope.
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| 20. | However, a spacecraft would be almost constantly struck by micrometeorites, about the size of dust grains.
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