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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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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. ESA says no fragments will fall higher than 43°N or further south than 43°S
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:02:52 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
My prediction? Chinatown in San Francisco. That would be “karma”.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:04:48 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: BenLurkin
Mecca, smack dab in the middle!......................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:05:32 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Wuli
Peking would be karma. Chinatown would be irony.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:05:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:05:51 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Wuli
Castro District.....................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:06:07 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BenLurkin
Glad to see the South Sandwich Islands are out of the danger zone.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:07:34 PM PST
by
linear
(The truth brooks no arbiters.)
To: BenLurkin
it will probably hit earth somewhere.
my guess... arizona.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:08:28 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
They will not know where it will ‘hit’ until it starts to burn and break up, and even then the debris field would be huge and long..................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:08:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BenLurkin
“Screw those commie bastards, and screw their little wussy space station”
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:10:02 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
I hope it hits my neighbor's house. He always plays his stereo too loud.
-PJ
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:10:06 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: Red Badger
Castro District..................... And spread tainted debris everywhere?
Oh wait, that is in San Fagsicko, so no one would notice.
To: doorgunner69
It might well clean up the place!......................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:14:02 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: teeman8r
McCain’s house?.....................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:14:31 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Political Junkie Too
It might be little, but it’s still a mass of 8 metric tonnes...................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:15:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BenLurkin
Could out of control Chinese space station hit a major city?
If so - can we pick which city? I see San Fransicko is already picked. I’m fine with that.
To: Political Junkie Too
Maybe it’ll hit my house.
I could use a new house....................
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:16:28 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Responsibility2nd
Mecca and Arizona are already picked as well..............
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:17:03 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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. Correct. They have to consider things like the "drag" from the solar wind just for starters.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:17:54 PM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: BenLurkin
This is about as precise as one of them climate change model thangies.
Apparently the Canadians, Russians, Polar Bears and some penguins are safe.
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posted on
11/09/2017 1:25:14 PM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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