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Falling NASA Satellite Could Spark Stunning Light Show
Space.com ^
| 21 September 2011
| Joe Rao
Posted on 09/22/2011 8:08:34 AM PDT by Windflier
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I'm not buying the statement that NASA doesn't know where this satellite is going to come down.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:08:41 AM PDT
by
Windflier
To: Windflier
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:09:55 AM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
To: Windflier
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:12:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: Windflier
That’s what we need...a nice fireworks show to emphasize the implosion of the economy.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:13:28 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: Windflier
"Lucky enough to be within viewing range" or unlucky enough to be in the impact area?
We are so lucky to have incompetemts in all areas of government.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:13:46 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
To: Windflier
"Lucky enough to be within viewing range" or unlucky enough to be in the impact area?
We are so lucky to have incompetents in all areas of government.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:14:40 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
To: Windflier
One night maybe 25 years ago, some friends and I were sitting on the beach at Godderich Ontario overlooking Lake Huron. All of a sudden we saw this huge visual display, something like fireworks, but far too high and distant to be that. We all sat there with dropped jaws saying, “WTF was that?!”
The next day we learned from the news that we had witnessed the re-entry of a Soviet satellite.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:17:12 AM PDT
by
sand lake bar
(This bag may be used as a toy)
To: Windflier
I predict that it will hit one of the Fukushima nuclear power plants.
Let the misinformed anti-nuke Freeper rants begin...
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:21:06 AM PDT
by
kidd
(S&P gives Obama an 'AA+'...Obama's only published grade)
To: Windflier
I'm not buying the statement that NASA doesn't know where this satellite is going to come down.
Like everything else in this administration, the results will be "unexpected".
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:21:06 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: cripplecreek
Cicily Alaska. Is that a joke, or do you have data on this?
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:25:15 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
I'm not buying the statement that NASA doesn't know where this satellite is going to come down.
I am. They moved Algor's people from the "AGW" area over to the
tracking and projection area because of the bang up job they did at the former.
That, and it's closer to the Algorsat viewing and storage room.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:26:01 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Windflier
UARS Mission Updates
http://www.nasa.gov/rss/uars_update.xml
Update #8Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:44 AM
As of 7 a.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 115 mi by 120 mi (185 km by 195 km). Re-entry is expected sometime during the afternoon of Sept. 23, Eastern Daylight Time. The satellite will not be passing over North America during that time period. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 to 36 hours.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:28:02 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: chrisser
Like everything else in this administration, the results will be "unexpected". I've got half a mind that this administration is pre-emptively covering their behinds, because NASA's tracking shows this thing is going to come down in a well populated area.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:28:36 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:30:29 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: Windflier
Use this link (via SpaceWeather.com) for the best guesses on where this thing lands.
In short: they really don't know right now -- the time window is about 4 hours wide, and that's enough for about 3 entire laps around the earth. Almost all heavily populated areas of the world are under those orbits... except North America and India.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:31:20 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: Rio
It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 to 36 hours. Well, that's helpful. Isn't this thing supposed to come down tomorrow?
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:31:26 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Rio
Here's a screen shot of where the orbital track will be at about 3:30pm Eastern Time tomorrow...
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:33:31 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers”~Sarah Louise Palin)
To: cripplecreek
Northern exposure reference. Got it. I'm terrible when it comes to pop trivia. I lost track of that sort of stuff over twenty years ago. Sort of like NASA and their satellite...
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:33:35 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
“A NASA satellite the size of a school bus” - remember, don’t pass it when the red lights are on.
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posted on
09/22/2011 8:36:10 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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