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1 posted on 08/06/2017 10:35:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Satellite Roulette.


2 posted on 08/06/2017 10:39:10 AM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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... re-entry as occuring in January 2018, with a margin of two months on either side.

Is that with or without AGW? It does matter. Actually, the Sun's expanding, or not expanding the atmosphere is what matters.

The good news, for me, is that I'm over a degree (of latitude) outside the projected fall coordinates.

3 posted on 08/06/2017 10:43:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Hydrazine? Yikes!


4 posted on 08/06/2017 11:14:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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and it doesn’t have thrusters to put it reliably into the Pacific?
Not a good thing to have an uncontrolled reentry of a large satellite


5 posted on 08/06/2017 11:22:24 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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I thought hydrazine was rocket fuel. Wouldn’t that burn up on the way down?


7 posted on 08/06/2017 12:05:03 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Anyone else recall when Skylab fell from orbit and burned up entering the atmosphere? Though I don’t think it all burned up and some actually crashed.


9 posted on 08/06/2017 7:48:08 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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Watch out, Kenny.....


10 posted on 08/06/2017 7:53:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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