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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
Posted on 11/09/2017 1:02:52 PM PST by 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.
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To: Political Junkie Too
PJ, I plan on tracking it and then if it starts coming this way... 11. ;-) Send it right into the Sun.
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:24:04 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: Calvin Locke
All cultures are equal, you know.............................;^)
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:24:05 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: cyclotic
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................
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:25:50 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: TigersEye
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................
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:27:30 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Did the extra 15 feet make much of a difference?
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:38:26 PM PST
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
To: cyclotic
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
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:42:53 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Play Bowie's "China Girl."
-PJ
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:46:07 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: cyclotic
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:47:07 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:51:30 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: BenLurkin
Beijing would be the best.
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posted on
11/09/2017 2:52:48 PM PST
by
MarMema
(I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
To: Political Junkie Too
I was planning on Back In Black by AC/DC. ;-)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
> 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 !
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posted on
11/09/2017 3:46:35 PM PST
by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: BenLurkin
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals...
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posted on
11/09/2017 3:50:49 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Play it at 11, record it, and play back the recording at 11.
-PJ
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posted on
11/09/2017 3:51:05 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: ADemocratNoMore
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.
To: BenLurkin
Please Please Please...Hit the U.S. Senate chambers while in full session with every Senator present.
To: BenLurkin
To: cyclotic; Red Badger
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.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yea, it wasn’t really a serious question
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posted on
11/09/2017 6:38:06 PM PST
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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