Greatest skyrocket ever! H-bomb expoded in space!

Interesting. I wonder how much radiation and radioactive particles made it back to earth. I suspect all the neutron, alpha and beta rays were blocked by the atmosphere but high energy gamma and the remains of the fission device probably made it through.

Oh and watching it on a 50 yr old newsreel while not as dramatic is just fine with me.

Joe
 
Areeda said:
Interesting. I wonder how much radiation and radioactive particles made it back to earth. I suspect all the neutron, alpha and beta rays were blocked by the atmosphere but high energy gamma and the remains of the fission device probably made it through.

Oh and watching it on a 50 yr old newsreel while not as dramatic is just fine with me.

Joe
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Nah...gamma rays don't make it through the atmosphere, neither do X-rays...heck, UV is pretty attenuated.

Any time they want to look at space in X or Gamma, they have to launch a satelite.
 
JeffDG said:
Nah...gamma rays don't make it through the atmosphere, neither do X-rays...heck, UV is pretty attenuated.

Any time they want to look at space in X or Gamma, they have to launch a satelite.
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I was thinking the atmosphere attenuates Gamma Rays by a factor of a few million to one and the amount emitted would make that significant.

It's been a while since I looked that up. Any idea what the real number is?

Joe
 
The film Nukes in Space is fascinating
 
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