Could out of control Chinese space station hit a major city? Experts draw up danger zone...

Daily Mail UK ^ | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5065253/China-s-space-station-crash-Earth-4-months.ht | Shivali Best

[BenLurkin]

The European Space Agency (ESA) predicts that the 8.5-tonne spacecraft will make an 'uncontrolled re-entry' to our planet between January and March 2018. While a precise landing location remains unclear, ESA has provided the latitudes between which Tiangong-1 is likely to land – and countries at risk include Spain, Italy, Turkey, India and parts of the US.

While most of the space station will break up, parts of flaming debris could land on Earth, experts claim. 

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The craft is now at about 300 kilometres (186 miles) altitude in an orbit that is expected to decay sometime between January and March 2018, when it will make an uncontrolled re-entry.

Holger Krag, head of ESA's Space Debris Office, said: 'Owing to the geometry of the station's orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43°N or further south than 43°S.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

PJ, I plan on tracking it and then if it starts coming this way... 11. ;-) Send it right into the Sun.

[TigersEye]

The problem with these things is even knowing all the stuff they know and all the supercomputers there are just too many other variables to account for.

Very true. Yet, compared to modeling the climate of the planet, this is just a 3rd grade math problem.

[Red Badger]

All cultures are equal, you know.............................;^)

[Red Badger]

I remember seeing Skylab go across the sky on one of its last orbits. We climbed up on the roof to get a better view................

[Red Badger]

They can’t tell me if it’s going to rain next week, but they damn sure can tell me what the climate will be like in 100 years................

[cyclotic]

Did the extra 15 feet make much of a difference?

[Political Junkie Too]

It probably just made the neighbor kids jealous.

"If little Badger across the street jumped off the roof, would you jump off the roof, too?"

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Play Bowie's "China Girl."

-PJ

[Red Badger]

No..................B^)

[Larry Lucido]

[MarMema]

Beijing would be the best.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I was planning on Back In Black by AC/DC. ;-)

[ADemocratNoMore]

> Mine goes to 11.

Carver Silver 9T monoblocks (550 W/ch) driving Carver AL-3 ribbons here. In a bedroom sized listening room, (in fact it was a bedroom). I hear ‘ya !

[rfp1234]

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals...

[Political Junkie Too]

Play it at 11, record it, and play back the recording at 11.

-PJ

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

We are capable of protecting the homeland together. We had better coordinate where we aim these things. I can slow it down but with what you have, KILL SHOT.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Please Please Please...Hit the U.S. Senate chambers while in full session with every Senator present.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Just my luck. 42.4789°N

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Did the extra 15 feet make much of a difference?

Depends on local terrain features. In the middle of the desert or ocean, no. In a suburban development, a lot.

[cyclotic]

Yea, it wasn’t really a serious question