Chinese space junk narrowly missed hitting New York City, report says

Fox News ^ | 05/12/2020 | Michael Ruiz

[BenLurkin]

Space junk from a new Chinese rocket narrowly missed dropping down on New York City Monday night, according to a report, largely burning up in the atmosphere before some of the debris survived long enough to slam into West Africa.

The doomed core passed right over New York City, Ars reported -- and if re-entry had been just a few minutes earlier, debris could reportedly have showered the Big Apple.

Instead, at least part of it fell on a town in Cote d’Ivoire, Quartz reported.

McDowell on Twitter said he could “conclude” that the objects that fell on Cote d’Ivoire “are very likely parts of the Chinese rocket stage.”

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Great timing China!

[JoSixChip]

China hates NY!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Red China keeps dropping $hit on everyone and everything.

[FreeReign]

Chinese space junk narrowly missed hitting New York City, report says

If the Chinese space junk briefly passed over Europe before narrowly missing NYC, would Cuomo call it European space junk?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**Space junk from a new Chinese rocket narrowly missed dropping down on New York City Monday night,**

Would you miss it?

[Revel]

Is it not enough that the Chinese are trying to kill us with a virus. And now this.

[j.havenfarm]

Almost New York + the Ivory Coast. That’s one hell of a big debris field

[proud American in Canada]

China again... !!!!

What is WRONG with these people?

[proud American in Canada]

Very true.

[noiseman]

I didn’t know Chinese junks could fly.

[mass55th]

Chinese junk used to just pertain to sailing ships. Now it pertains to everything China produces.

[spetznaz]

China sure does seem to be making a lot of ‘mistakes’ when it comes to the US.

[21twelve]

I guess when something is traveling at 17,000 miles an hour, a few minutes can make a huge difference.

“A few minutes” makes a better headline than “thousands of miles” too!

[timestax]

[timestax]

[absalom01]

Really, can’t we just nuke these clowns and get it over with?

[dayglored]

> I guess when something is traveling at 17,000 miles an hour, a few minutes can make a huge difference. “A few minutes” makes a better headline than “thousands of miles” too!

A typical low-earth orbit takes about 90 minutes, and covers about 25,000 miles, or something like 280 miles per minute. Indeed, “a few minutes” can easily represent “thousands of miles”. But most news readers don’t like math and don’t know physics or geography, and are easily impressed and frightened.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Space junk from a new Chinese rocket narrowly missed dropping down on New York City Monday night, according to a report, largely burning up in the atmosphere before some of the debris survived long enough to slam into West Africa.

Oh, well. Better luck next time.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oh, before I forget, China rocket is a**hole!