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==Qualitative Illustration==
==Qualitative Illustration==
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==Theoretical Bifurcation==


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'''Figure 1'''
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[[File:SkylabFission.jpg|400px|Droplet Fission]]
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[[File:HachisuEriguchi1984.jpg|400px|Hachisu &amp; Eriguchi scenario]]<br>
[[File:HachisuEriguchi1984.jpg|400px|Hachisu &amp; Eriguchi scenario]]<br>
[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984Ap%26SS..99...71H Hachisu &amp; Eriguchi (1984)]  
[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984Ap%26SS..99...71H Hachisu &amp; Eriguchi (1984)]  
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* '''<font color="darkblue">Space Shuttle Flights</font>''' (circa 1992):
* '''<font color="darkblue">Space Shuttle Flights</font>''' (circa 1992): Experiments illustrating the ''fission'' of liquid drops were evidently also conducted during a couple of space shuttle missions.  The experiments were performed with the aid of a "Drop Physics Module (DPM)" inside the "portable" United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML) that was housed in the shuttle's payload bay.
** The first mission &#8212; [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-50.html USML-1 during shuttle flight STS-50] &#8212; took place in early 1992. According to [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/95/release_1995_9571.html information provided by NASA/JPL's public information office], "&#8230; the transition of rotating liquid drops into a 'dog-bone,' or two-lobed shape, was studied in detail &#8230;"  Detailed results from DPM experiments during the USML-1 mission have been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics:  T. G. Wang, A. V. Anilkumar, C. P. Lee and K. C. Lin (1994).  ''Bifurcation of rotating liquid drops: results from USML-1 experiments in Space.'' [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112094002612 Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 276, pp 389-403]
** The second mission &#8212; [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-73.html USML-2 during shuttle flight STS-73] &#8212; took place in the fall of 1995.


* '''<font color="darkblue">International Space Station</font>''' (circa 2000):
* '''<font color="darkblue">International Space Station</font>''' (circa 2000):

Revision as of 01:58, 2 January 2014


Fission Hypothesis of Binary Star Formation

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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Qualitative Illustration

Figure 1
Droplet Fission

Skylab Drop Dynamics Experiment (1975)
(Youtube video)

Figure 2
Hachisu & Eriguchi scenario
Hachisu & Eriguchi (1984)
(Astrophysics and Space Science, 99, 71)

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Drop Dynamics Experiments

[On 1 January 2014, J. E. Tohline wrote ...] As I was putting this chapter together, I had difficulty documenting the various drop dynamics experiments that have been conducted by astronauts in various Earth-orbiting (zero <math>g</math>) environments. Here is the relevant information that I have found, to date:

  • Skylab (circa 1973-1974): Experiments showing the fission of liquid drops were evidently conducted during the Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4 missions.

According to the Teacher's Guide mentioned above, the activities shown in the above-referenced films were carried out by three teams of Skylab Astronauts:

Skylab Astronauts

Kerwin blows water droplet from a straw


Skylab 2 (First Team)

  • Space Shuttle Flights (circa 1992): Experiments illustrating the fission of liquid drops were evidently also conducted during a couple of space shuttle missions. The experiments were performed with the aid of a "Drop Physics Module (DPM)" inside the "portable" United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML) that was housed in the shuttle's payload bay.
  • International Space Station (circa 2000):

Online References

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface

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