Space boomerangs
Do boomerangs return when thrown in zero-gravity? Japanese astronaut Takao Doi will soon find out by throwing some around inside the International Space Station.
Space boomerangs to be tested aboard ISS
When the Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on March 11, Doi will be carrying a pair of paper boomerangs presented by Yasuhiro Togai, a 2006 world boomerang champion and space enthusiast from Osaka. Togai, who long wondered how boomerangs would fly without the downward pull of gravity, suggested Doi conduct boomerang experiments in space after they met several years ago. Doi agreed, and Togai taught him how to throw. Togai believes the space boomerangs will spiral up and away without returning, but he says he is looking forward to the results.
[Source: Yomiuri]
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They never come back.
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They won’t come back.. it’s air resistance and pressure that bends the path of a boomerang. You give these things a path and they’ll just keep on going.
But when you make money throwing around some boomerangs in space.. I guess you’re not complaining! ;)
Well, they didn’t say no air. Just no gravity. (It’ll come back but about 10′ over his head, if there’s enough room)
well…if we didn’t test even the smallest things there would be no..hum..evolution or something :P
AFP article. It worked:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i2n44DP0PaB-TdrZWh5J23O3wjsw
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This has been the third time a boomerang has been thrown in space now.
Takao Doi just confirmed what french astronaut Jean Francois Cleroy found in 1997 (on MIR) and German Astronaut Ulf Meerbold found in 1992 (on Spacelab).
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Well, how did it go?
well?!?!?!?!?!?!? did it come back?
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