Fred Sherman
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Streaking across northern Europe right now...
Watch the Skies!
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Peggy
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It's looking for me....
gib
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http://www.calsky.com/csrender.cgi?object=Satellite&number=3&sat=21701&tracker=
another few hours and it should be no more
according to a recent NASA update
"As of 7 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 90 miles by 95 miles (145 km by 150 km). Re-entry is expected between 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 3 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3 a.m. to 7 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada, Africa and Australia, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote."
another few hours and it should be no more
according to a recent NASA update
"As of 7 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 90 miles by 95 miles (145 km by 150 km). Re-entry is expected between 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 3 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3 a.m. to 7 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada, Africa and Australia, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote."
Fred Sherman
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The next orbit should bring it over Texas. I'll try to capture video if I'm able to locate it quick enough.
gib
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Will be interested to know if you can see it, I don't think it will be visible until it gets below 80km and starts hitting the main atmosphere, good luck !!
EQnoble
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it does contain 1000lbs of hydrazine though
here are some warning labels associated with the compound
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And associated health risks from one source.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/r?dbs+hsdb:@term+@rn+@rel+302-01-2
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Me ...last thing I am worried about is keeping a piece if it falls near me lol..... I would be the one dodging man-made asteroids and hoping something the size of that tank at the end of the video doesn't come crashing through my ceiling and show me what it feels like to be ground beef.
I seriously would not touch a piece of it even though I am a space nut and it would be great to have in a collection as a piece of history....but not good enough where I want to be history.
Fred Sherman
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Kevin
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I think he's safe. Now if he had followed that up with "Here, hold my beer!" then he would've jinxed himself for sure.That's an epitaph quote if ever I read one!
grant sarver
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Local couple thought it had crashed into their house. Turned out to be a car driven by a drunk. Went all the way into the living room!
MGSteve
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I did spot something flying low in the sky that I initally thought was the ISS, but I then looked up the position of the ISS and it was over the US. I didn't think the UARS orbit came over the EU, all the diagrams I saw suggested it always orbited over the Americas?
Has it crashed down now or is it still up there?
physicspirate
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If it falls from the sky into your back yard how do you not own it? Especially if you are outside the US, and you didn't give them permission to land the unit on your property.
There is a local guy here who has a piece of land with an oil pump jack on it. The oil company truckers always take his personal approach, and not the one they built on the other side of his yard. I guess whenever they take the personal approach, he shuts his gate, and they aren't allowed to open it, because they are trespassing.
The trucker gets a ride out, and the truck has to stay until the company negotiates a price for its return. It always ends up the oil company pays the ransom to get the truck back(last I heard he got 15k for the latest catch). If they don't pay, he just lets it sit in the yard and rust away. He has done it on a number of occasions, so I guess it must be legal.
I wonder what the legalities are for falling space junk? It should be the same rules as junk in the ocean should it not? Finders keepers sorta thing?
Kevin
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Are you one of those neighbors who refuse to give kids their ball back if it accidentally lands in your yard?
physicspirate
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Please stay on topic.
Fred Sherman
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He was. You should be familiar with contrast and compare as a logical construct. What you really mean to say is, "SFTU for using a common, everyday event to show how absurd my claim is."
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