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A 20-year-old satellite is expected to crash into Earth later this week, and the debris has a roughly 1-in-3,200 chance of hitting a person, NASA officials say. (To be clear: that's the odds that any of the wreckage will hit any of the planet's 7 billion people, not the odds of hitting any specific person.)
NASA’s current projections show that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite – or UARS (pronounced: YOU-arz) if you want to sound cool – will finally succumb to the Earth’s gravity in the next several days, with an expected impact on Friday.
But, as the Washington Post explains, even actual rocket scientists can’t say for certain when – or where – impact will occur:
Out-of-control crashing satellites don’t lend themselves to exact estimates even for the precision-minded folks at NASA. The uncertainty about the “when” makes the “where” all the trickier, because a small change in the timing of the reentry translates into thousands of miles of difference in the crash site.
NASA officials have said that the drop zone for the UARS could be anywhere between the latitudes of northern Canada and southern South America, an area that includes pretty much the entire planet. Still, they say that the chances that someone will be injured during the impact is extremely remote and that, most likely, the satellite will land with a splash in a body of water, according to Space.com.
The satellite is expected to partially burn up during reentry, but plenty of space souvenirs will likely survive. Scientists predict the satellite will break into about 100 pieces, with about a quarter of them likely to remain after the re-entry burn. The largest surviving piece could weigh as much as 300 pounds
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/1...riday.html (http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/1...riday.html)
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
Or Randy Quaid in Independence Day. :zoinks:
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
Or Randy Quaid in Independence Day. :zoinks:
That movie sucked, but I really like Randy Quaid, at least before he went off the deep end. He really should stop using crank.
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
Or Randy Quaid in Independence Day. :zoinks:
That movie sucked, but I really like Randy Quaid, at least before he went off the deep end. He really should stop using crank.
Once again you are WRONG, Independence Day is awesome! :hyke:
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
Or Randy Quaid in Independence Day. :zoinks:
That movie sucked, but I really like Randy Quaid, at least before he went off the deep end. He really should stop using crank.
Once again you are WRONG, Independence Day is awesome! :hyke:
:agreed: :indeed:
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I told them when they sent it up, but did they listen? :laugh:
they probably said "who the fuck are you, and why should we care. we just put it up there. god brings it down."
:indeed: Just like Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno. :lol:
Or Randy Quaid in Independence Day. :zoinks:
That movie sucked, but I really like Randy Quaid, at least before he went off the deep end. He really should stop using crank.
dont blame the crank
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Once again you are WRONG, Independence Day is awesome! :hyke:
It's a good movie, but the old drunk cropduster stereotype is a bit old.
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Once again you are WRONG, Independence Day is awesome! :hyke:
It's a good movie, but the old drunk cropduster stereotype is a bit old.
Actually that was the first old drunk cropduster I'd ever seen! :plane:
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*Crosses fingers and makes mental note to check yard for debris on friday*
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*Crosses fingers and makes mental note to check yard for debris on friday*
Don't check before Friday is over. :orly:
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*Crosses fingers and makes mental note to check yard for debris on friday*
Don't check before Friday is over. :orly:
:laugh:
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Evidently stuff like this happens a lot just not as high a profile
It's likely that 50 to 200 "large" pieces of manmade space debris return to Earth every year, according to the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies. Bill Ailor, the center's director, like those at NASA's Johnson Space Center, said he was asked by the government not to comment specifically on the current satellite re-entry issue.
Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23259332/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/space-junk-hits-earth-often-not-people/#.TnibVNRtuSo)
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I hope it lands in my yard
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I hope it lands in my yard
Me too :green:
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I hope it lands in my yard
Me too :green:
I was waiting for you to ask us to send you shrapnel found in our gardens. :zoinks:
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Lol they just posted a tracking map showing it flying over the UK
they say it will come down on friday
Heads up
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I wonder how long you would drift, if somehow you were separated from your spacecraft.
I imagine and hope that you would run out of oxygen and suffocate before you started into the atmosphere
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Post the tracking map.
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Post the tracking map.
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701 (http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701)
evidently a busy site at the moment
and another interesting link:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7866658-falling-satellite-seen-from-earth (http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7866658-falling-satellite-seen-from-earth)
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Thanks. The video in the second link was good. Wonder how many people are ufo freaking.
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Post the tracking map.
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701 (http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701)
evidently a busy site at the moment
and another interesting link:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7866658-falling-satellite-seen-from-earth (http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7866658-falling-satellite-seen-from-earth)
:thumbup: Good links.
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That thing goes so fast.
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I hope no :seal: :seal: :seal: will be hurt.
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Wonder what it would do with my little garden, if a big chunk fell in it. :nerdy:
That bit is kind a cool, but all the media attention :GA: :GA: :GA:
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It fell, but they still can't find the parts?
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I hope no :seal: :seal: :seal: will be hurt.
:agreed:
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I shot a satellite into space.
It fell to Earth.
I know not where.
Someone has lost professional face.
It didn't stay in it's berth.
We're lucky it's not a pair.
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If you find something you think may be a piece of UARS, do not touch it. Contact a local law enforcement official for assistance.
Yeah, right. That shit's going on eBay.