Are you asking the mechanical engineers on the list for a SWAG (scientific wild-assed guess) for an unknown structure, or do you have at least bare minimum specifications of size and strength of a known structure to work from?

I'm not a mechanical engineer, but even I can tell that the question itself needs a lot more work than was put into it.

A two pound block of steel with no useful electronics on board would likely "survive" a lot better than a fragile radio device or robot, for example. But the block of steel won't DO anything useful.

-- Nate Duehr Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:52, Joe nss@mwt.net wrote:

What speed do you think would be max survivable speed for a landing on the moon for a robot, or comm system?

How fast could something hit and survive?

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