Re: Nuclear Golf

[fhf <maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>]

My guess is that ionization of the air around the golf ball would lead 
to a charge on the ball, and electrostatic impedance of its motion. 
Therefore, the golf ball should slow down (though perhaps not 
noticeable to the player).

			Mike Quastel

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Warren Church wrote:

> An added benefit results because irradiated golf balls carry further down
> the fairway!
> warren_church@uml.edu
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> > From: M. Jerome <smj1@npl.co.uk>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> > Subject: Nuclear Golf
> > Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 7:35 AM
> > 
> > This may provide a little light relief. It comes from the Reader's 
> > Digest 'Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past'.
> > 
> > In 1950, scientists perfected...a golf ball containing radioactive 
> > material. With a small Geiger counter...any duffer could find his 
> > atomic golf ball, no matter how far into the rough it had disappeared. 
> > (The investment would pay for itself in retrieved balls)...
> > 
> > I suppose this would make for interesting dose calculations when you 
> > actually found the thing!
> > 
> > Simon Jerome
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