Monday, September 19, 2011

Defunt communications satellite is going to fall from Space...

...and hit earth (probably on Friday September 23rd). Don't worry its estimated that there's only a 1/3600 chance that it will hit a person, or a puppy (got your attention now huh?).




From Space.com:
A dead climate satellite that has been circling Earth for 20 years will make a fiery death plunge this week, with some pieces of the 6 1/2 ton spacecraft expected to reach the surface of the planet, NASA officials say. The bus-size Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, will likely plummet down to Earth sometime around Friday (Sept. 23), according to NASA's latest projections. There is a 1-in-3,200 chance that UARS debris could hit a person, though NASA considers that scenario extremely remote.
"Re-entry is expected Sept. 23, plus or minus a day," NASA officials wrote in an update posted Sunday (Sept. 18). That means that by Saturday (Sept. 24), the UARS satellite should slam into Earth's atmosphere and break apart.


Sources -> http://www.space.com/12909-uars-satellite-debris-fall.html
http://www.space.com/12999-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-earth-sept-23.html

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