Talk:Bow shock
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The picture makes it appear like inferno starts after the bow shock. Is there something to this? Is there some kind of interstellar plasma outside this border that will destroy the poor Voyagers? Salleman 12:13, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Bow shock vs. Termination shock
I'm posting this in both talk pages because there must be a problem. Both articles mention that their "shock" is the boundery where the solar wind particles slow from supersonic to subsonic speed. Now they can't both be right so at least one of them must be corrected. I am no expert on this so I'll let the experts fix it. 32.97.110.142 13:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- Seems to be fixed. Termination shock is where solar wind slows down, bow shock is where ISM slows down --Keflavich 21:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Graphics
Update: I believe the issues have mostly been corrected. (No, the bow shock will not incinerate the Voyagers; hopefully the solar wind/ISM supersonic/subsonic distinctions have been clarified in the article.) Could someone who knows more about plasma astrophysics please verify? Ckerr 10:51, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Not just astronomy...
The article begins as "In a planetary magnetosphere, the bow shock is the boundary at which the solar wind abruptly drops..." and ends with "Astronomy stubs", as if bow shock is something special just in astronomy, which I think is not the case. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought bow shock is a more general aerodynamic (to be precise, fluid dynamic) phenomenon (though I don't know about Termination shock mentioned above). So, could someone add another examples such as reentry vehicles and hopefully revise the article as a general fluid dynamic term? (and perhaps this is to be categorized under Category:Fluid dynamics) - Marsian / talk 13:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, pick up any book on Gas Dynamics or Supersonic Aerodynamics. A bow shock forms ahead of any blunt body passing through any medium (gas, liquid, or solid) at supersonic speed. Now here's a question for you: how is "bow" pronounced? Like "bough" (because it's ahead of the body) or "beau" (because of its curved shape, like a bow for shooting arrows)?--BillFlis 15:32, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
This article JUST deals with an astronomical subject. If there are OTHER Bow Shocks than they should be under "Bow Shock (what ever)"aceslead 03:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stub No More
Astronomy stub should go it should just fall under the category: astronomy.aceslead 03:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. I am removing the stub. in the future dont worry about removing stubs - if an article seems to define itself and contain enough relevant information, it is not a stub. Just go ahead and remove the stub, and if someone has a problem with that, they will re-add the stub later. --Exodio 01:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
