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4allmankind
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posted 03-28-2008 08:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 4allmankind   Click Here to Email 4allmankind     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can anyone help me ID what this Skylab fragment is? It is silver/metal in color with some slight shades of orange and brown on the sides (might not be evident in the photos). It has a honeycombed hollow bottom. A bit reminiscent of a heatshield. The sides are scored "slices" of metal which form the honeycomb shape in the ends.

It was embedded in lucite by the Western Mining Corporation of Australia. It is labeled as a part of Skylab itself, not any of the three command modules.

Does anyone know what portions of Skylab that survived re-entry might be honeycombed like this?

space1
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posted 03-28-2008 10:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for space1   Click Here to Email space1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm not positive what part of Skylab this might be. But I would expect that honeycomb panels would have been used as structural dividers (walls) in some areas. I don't have anything more definitive.

pbrowne
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posted 06-15-2020 09:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pbrowne   Click Here to Email pbrowne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Reviving this 2008 thread, I'm guessing that it could be part of the micrometeroid shield on Skylab, some (all?) of which came off during launch.

There are similar honeycomb structures from the SkyLab debris in the Museum of Western Australia

Jim Behling
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posted 06-16-2020 07:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The micrometeroid shield wasn't honeycomb.

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