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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2008

Harold Rosen, team leader of the Southern California Selene Group, demonstrates -- with a simple homemade contraption -- the advantages of spin stabilization.

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  • gives creed to spinning disc..lol

  • It looks cool, but I do have a quick question (which you can hopefully answer).

    In the video it seems that he drops the spinning object from a lower height when its spinning than when it is not.

    While it could be just me (which would be fine) I was wondering what is the maximum height would it have to drop in order to land properly?

  • pretty cool.

    The original lunar lander had honey comb composite inside the leg tubes that crushed to absorb the shock so that it did not have spring return energy. I suppose you could also have something like a pneumatic cylinder that that is pressureized on one side and when it lands it can blow the air out so you get the dampening but not the return force.

  • Deb and Harold...this is fantastic!!

    You are making this happen. What a team.

    Darlene

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