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Just in case anyone was unaware, NASA have said that one of it's satellites will crash to earth somewhere, tonight.

Now obviously the first thing that i thought was photo oppertunity :lol:

The DM is already showing that one astro photographer has already got shots of it. (blobs if i'm honest) They then go on to say that when the satellite starts to break up it will appear "like a fiery meteor shower"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ists-race-spray-debris.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Just thought i'd point it out, should the rare chance that it passes over europe you guys may be interested in the photo possibilities.
 
Sorry,

I have an appointment in a big cave in Colorado. My mate Barack, said it doesn't get used for much now apart from following Santa, So I can borrow it for he night.

:)
 
1 in 3200 chance of being hit by a satellite falling from the sky.
1 in 14 million chance of winning the lottery.
I know which one my luck is more likely to get.
 
It's just nice to know that with the best technology the world has they can accurately say where it will land.
Somewhere between 57north and 57south.
At least that's narrowed it down to 2/3rds of the populated planet.

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I saw an old Russian satelite burn up one night in the tower at Gatwick. We thought it was an aircraft coming towards us at first. It was VERY impressive.
 
Wheres Bruce Willis and his mates when we really need them....
 
1 in 3200 chance of being hit by a satellite falling from the sky.
1 in 14 million chance of winning the lottery.
I know which one my luck is more likely to get.
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your stats are a bit wrong...

1 in 3200 of SOMEONE being hit.

so say 5 billion people live within the 'estimated region', YOUR chance is 1 in 16,000,000,000,000 :D
 
itsdavedotnet said:
your stats are a bit wrong...

1 in 3200 of SOMEONE being hit.

so say 5 billion people live within the 'estimated region', YOUR chance is 1 in 16,000,000,000,000 :D
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You best inform them then, cos I have listened to half a dozen radio stations throughout the day and they have all said 1 in 3200 of being hit by it.
Anyway this is in the wrong section :lol::lol:
 
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I was just reading about it earlier today........

Predicting where the debris will land is difficult for two main reasons. Unpredictable rises in the sun's activity warm the atmosphere and make it expand, which causes the spacecraft to experience more drag and re-enter more quickly. Another problem comes from uncertainties in the tracking of how the spacecraft disintegrates, which means that even just a few hours before impact, the corridor of the Earth's surface at risk will be several thousand miles long.

"It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 12 to 18 hours."

Nasa put the odds of anyone being struck by a falling part of the spacecraft at one in 3,200. The individual risk to a particular person is much less – one in 3,200 multiplied by the billions that live under the satellite's flight path

The space agency anticipates that 26 potentially hazardous parts, weighing a total of 532kg, could remain intact and hit the Earth.

The debris will spread along an estimated 500-mile corridor of the Earth's surface. Among the parts expected to survive the fiery re-entry are four titanium fuel tanks, four steel flywheel rims and an aluminium structure that alone weighs 158kg.

I could do with a couple of fuel tanks !
 
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The srap metal guys will be looking to the sky in their transit vans tonight
 
Nasa put the odds of anyone being struck by a falling part of the spacecraft at one in 3,200. The individual risk to a particular person is much less – one in 3,200 multiplied by the billions that live under the satellite's flight path. "The odds of you as an individual being hit by this are around one in 20 trillion," Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the BBC.
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just heard on the radio it could hit anywhere between the doncaster,leeds,manchester,wrexham corridor.....anywhere between 21.00 and 23.00....get in your cars now,run for your lives.......now i said......NOW !!!!...RUUUUUUNN

nortypeter ;)
 
Cool, Wrexham isn't far from me, Titanium must be worth a bit to the scrap blokes......not to mention the geeks on ebay who want a bit of the starship enterprise :naughty:
 
Would anyone know if it hit wrexham





Can Imagine the headlines.

Satellite crashes and causes millions of pounds worth of improvements to Wrexham










Above is a joke. Especially If your from wrexham or have any connection to wrexham or for whatever reason love wrexham.




God knows why though:lol:
 
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It's due to pass over us at 9pm and should be visable cloud cover permiting in the South Eastern sky as an orange streak according to the telegraph web site. Most likely to come down over the pacific after midnight.
 
JKP photographic said:
It's just nice to know that with the best technology the world has they can accurately say where it will land.
Somewhere between 57north and 57south.
At least that's narrowed it down to 2/3rds of the populated planet.
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I knew living 58 degrees north would come in handy one day :lol:
 
Was viewing the south eastern part of the sky from my back garden at around 21:15, and saw it. Very bright indeed glowing orange, fairly large then disappeared behind a big thick blanket of clouds.
 
Dave Stone said:
I saw an old Russian satelite burn up one night in the tower at Gatwick. We thought it was an aircraft coming towards us at first. It was VERY impressive.
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What was it doing in the tower at Gatwick?

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Love that Channel 4 News clip

"it could either crash into the sea or on land"

Well doh!
 
JKP photographic said:
Nasa put the odds of anyone being struck by a falling part of the spacecraft at one in 3,200. The individual risk to a particular person is much less – one in 3,200 multiplied by the billions that live under the satellite's flight path. "The odds of you as an individual being hit by this are around one in 20 trillion," Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the BBC.
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So roughly the same as finding a free parking space in Swansea ;)
 
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Question. Are you going to get hit by a piece of space debris?
Answer. No.

Question. Is anyone going to get hit by a piece of this space debris?
Answer. Almost certainly not.

Question. Do I care?
Answer. No.

Question. Where will any of it land?
Answer. Probably in the sea.

It's about as interesting as the nonsense talked about December 2012 and the non-existent planetary conjunctions that are going to tilt the world on its axis, reverse the Earth's polarity and start spinning it in the opposite direction and solve the global economic crisis.

Give me strength
 
itsdavedotnet said:
your stats are a bit wrong...

1 in 3200 of SOMEONE being hit.

so say 5 billion people live within the 'estimated region', YOUR chance is 1 in 16,000,000,000,000 :D
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:thinking: You sure your not really Carol Vordeman in secret :shrug: :lol:
 
Has it crashed yet?
 
Yes.
 
It crashed into the Large Hadron Collider, causing it to go into overdrive and generate a black hole which is heading your way as we speak.
 
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