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Recently some parts of a Crew Dragon landed in western North Carolina. The largest piece found so far is about the size of a car hood (~2.3 square meters) (inse
by chiph 2y ago
Recently some parts of a Crew Dragon landed in western North Carolina. The largest piece found so far is about the size of a car hood (~2.3 square meters) (insert joke about strange American measurement units here), and appears to mostly be carbon fiber.
https://www.space.com/nasa-confirms-debris-spacex-crew-dragon https://www.space.com/nasa-confirms-debris-spacex-crew-drago...
Which sent me on a path to find out if carbon fiber is magnetic, and it appears to depend on the weave, the angle relative to the field, the strength of the field (naturally), and whether the magnetic field is static or alternating, and at what frequency.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012JAP...112k3921G/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012JAP...112k3921G/abstra...