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Space Boomerang Video Released

Posted May 07, 2008 8:20 AM

From New Scientist :

Remember the astronaut who recently tested whether boomerangs return to their throwers in the absence of gravity? Well, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that the objects do, in fact, come back - even in the microgravity environment of the space station.

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Re: Space Boomerang Video Released

05/09/2008 2:28 AM

We saw this recently.

The object is actually not a boomerang but a 3-lobed rotor.

They return by simple aerodynamics, not gravity.

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