To track satellite:
After you have downloaded program, then click
Start
Documents
Downloads
Save to screen saver, and desktop shortcut
After it appears on your screen,
Look in list on right and select/ click UARS
Then - in the top right side is a little button, click to open a window to decide what to do with screensaver.
It is minimized on my computer at the moment. Fun stuff.
Could it be arranged to fall on Al Gore’s palace?
Boy, wouldn’t it be hilarious if it landed right the **** on...
Nevermind!
They are probably deliberately de-orbiting that bird while they still can, just to be sure there is no hard evidence, before the whole AGW fraud is exposed and the prosecutions begin.
The odds of being hit by lightening are 1 in 1,000,000 in a given year and lightening is going on somewhere on a daily basis. Add to that the earth is 70% water and only 28% of the remaining 30% total land mass is populated and I'm thinking those odds are off. More phony panic being created?
Just thinking out loud and ducking for cover as it comes down....
I remember when Skylab was falling. It passed over the US 16 times each day. I assume likewise for this satellite.
Yea, never mind that it was US taxpayer dollars that paid for this. I say screw them, finders keepers.
And just why can’t those NASA supercomputers predict exactly where the satellite will crash. We have these same experts predicting global warming down to the thousandth of a degree and with all this proliferation of overpaid doctorates, they can’t even guess where the thing will crash?
Additionally, if I were the Food Stamp President or Eric (the bigot) Holder, I would be on the phone with the NASA clowns about this problem. Just think what a disaster it would be if the satellite crashed on their gun running operations ... the satellite would kill a third or so of the entire ATF and ruin the sales for the quarter and diminish Zero’s campaign donations from Mexican customers.
Just in time for Elenin, too???
Only difference is George was killed by a falling toilet seat. Whatever falls from the sky onto someone's head would stink.
Update.
Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011
RE-ENTRY ALERT: UARS, a NASA satellite the size of a small bus, will re-enter the atmosphere later this week. Best estimates place the re-entry time during the late hours of Sept. 23rd over a still-unknown region of Earth. "It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry," says NASA. "Predictions will become more refined over the next two days."
The disintegration of UARS is expected to produce a fireball that could be visible even in broad daylight. Not all of the spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere, however; according to a NASA risk assessment, as many as 26 potentially hazardous pieces of debris could be scattered along a ground track some 500 miles long. The same report puts the odds of a human casualty at 1 in 3200.
On Sept. 15th, astrophotographer Theirry Legault video-recorded the doomed satellite during one of its last passes over France:
"The satellite appears to be tumbling, perhaps because a collision with satellite debris a few years ago," notes Legault. "The variations in brightness are rapid and easily visible to the human eye." (Other observers have reported UARS flashes almost as bright as Venus.)
Thank you. I have downloaded it and am running it.
Thanks for the ping, Lucy. Please keep us posted on the latest if you can, and thanks!
I used the “prediction” mode and came up with this...
The next orbit that will pass over US territory crosses over what appears to be the Florida-Alabama border area and goes right up the edge of the Eastern Seaboard. This will go ‘feet dry’ overhead at a predicted time of 8:55pm Eastern.
The next orbit to cross the US will enter over New Mexico at around 10:35pm Eastern and will exit over Minnesota.
The final orbit to cross US territory enters over central/northern California at 9:20pm Pacific time and exits over Montana.
Since NASA has already said they don’t believe the UARS will last that long, these may be moot predictions, but there you go.