[AR] Re: dumping LM Aquarius
- From: Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Keith Henson wrote:
> >> Was Apollo 13's Pu-238 (3,9 kg) in LM Aquarius later recovered...
> > No. The splashdown site was chosen to put the plutonium cask into deep
> > ocean, where it sits to this day...
> We are getting better and better at finding stuff on the ocean floor.
I'd guess that the search would be lengthy and expensive -- it's a small
object and its location is known only very roughly -- but perhaps it could
be done.
> Though about half has decayed by now.
No, only about a third -- half-life of Pu-238 is 86.4 years.
Henry Spencer
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