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Nasa refines satellite crash time ('out-of-control' climate satellite crash Pool anyone?)
BBC.co.uk ^ | 9/22/11 | Paul Rincon - BBC News

Posted on 09/22/2011 10:32:06 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

The US space agency (Nasa) says that its out-of-control climate satellite is expected to crash to Earth sometime on Friday evening (GMT).

There is still much uncertainty over when and where the satellite will re-enter the atmosphere.

Experts say they will get a more precise idea in the last 12 hours before the satellite is due to return.

The US space agency says the risk to life from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is 1 in 3,200.

Satellite and space expert Dr Stuart Eves stressed the large uncertainties involved in tracking the "decay" of satellite orbits (their slow fall back into the Earth's atmosphere).

Using the most recent determination of UARS' orbit - taken in the early hours of this morning - Dr Eves and a colleague have come up with their own projections of the satellite's final descent. But he explained that a spacecraft's orbit lifetime could only be estimated to about 10% accuracy.

This translates to a six-hour window either side of the expected decay which, based on a range of probabilities, would see the spacecraft splash down in the Southern Ocean.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: nasa; refines; satellite; uars
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To: andy58-in-nh

oh wow.. I hadn’t looked in a half hour.

Dow 10,688.72 -436.12 -3.92%

Gold 1,730.90 -74.60 -4.13%

tough call..


21 posted on 09/22/2011 10:49:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: UCANSEE2

from the orbit map posted, it might just schwack Syria......


22 posted on 09/22/2011 10:50:59 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Just south of the Northern Ocean.. or sumthin’ geessh..

lol


23 posted on 09/22/2011 10:51:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Scythian; JRios1968

We can STILL hope it’s Flo!!

Pleeze! Pleeze! If there’s a God in heaven, let it be Flo!!

;-)


24 posted on 09/22/2011 10:51:59 AM PDT by djf (Buncha sheep: A flock.. Buncha cows: A herd.. Buncha fish: A school.. Buncha baboons: A Congress..)
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To: NormsRevenge

The reentry burnup of a climate satellite is ... man-made climate warming LOL!


25 posted on 09/22/2011 10:53:07 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Just north of here


26 posted on 09/22/2011 10:54:00 AM PDT by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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To: NormsRevenge

So if I start to see the light about the time this thing should land is that a good thing?


27 posted on 09/22/2011 10:54:14 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: djf

I’m with you - the numbers don’t add up unless the thing is carrying a bunch of nukes...


28 posted on 09/22/2011 10:55:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: UCANSEE2
As far as it falling on anyone in the US, not very likely.

I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to have my umbrella with me all day.

29 posted on 09/22/2011 10:57:02 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: andy58-in-nh
What’s the spread on which crashes first: the satellite or the stock market?

We're down 436 for the day so far...

30 posted on 09/22/2011 10:57:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Financials are getting slaughtered, especially. It’s about as close to global capitulation as I’ve seen in a while. There is still some positive volume though, and we could see a bottom by tomorrow. But the fear is more than palpable out there...


31 posted on 09/22/2011 10:57:10 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules
Where is the “Southern Ocean”?

Good catch - there isn't one...

32 posted on 09/22/2011 10:57:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

It’s the water around Antarctica.


33 posted on 09/22/2011 10:58:43 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: UCANSEE2

Satellite orbits are more or less stationary with respect to the “fixed” stars, not the rotating earth. Between successive 90 minute orbits, the earth will rotate approximately 22.5 degrees of longitude to the east, meaning, that for a person on the earth, the satellite will appear about 22.5 degrees in longitude further to the west between orbits. Over time, that satellite will cover almost the entire earth.


34 posted on 09/22/2011 10:59:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: hoagy62

Here’s to a safe splashdown before Saturday evening worse case. We’re flying to Europe and would be crossing a flight path enroute.

That would make a heck of a video from an airliner window,, debris flying by... but I don’t want to be the one making it and we don’t need any new ruins in Europe, that would be a mess.


35 posted on 09/22/2011 10:59:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Meanwhile, Al Gore is cringing in the deepest fallout shelter he can find, curled up in a little ball while sobbing, saying that the satellite is going to destroy the Earth, killing everyone, and me! It’s going to kill me! (sob!)


36 posted on 09/22/2011 10:59:46 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m hoping it destroys the muslim mosque sitting on-top the temple mount.


37 posted on 09/22/2011 10:59:59 AM PDT by Sweet Hour of Prayer
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To: djf

Odds are even better that it could hit Michael the Hutt Moore.


38 posted on 09/22/2011 11:00:50 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: NormsRevenge

BREAKING:


I have a contact at NASA, this is no joke. He said that they received a disturbing transmission from the satillite that alarmed command and control to such an extent that they tried to detonate the satellite, yes, it had that capabilitity. But something when drastically wrong. I am taking a huge personal risk here, he snuck out the transmission and gave me a link to it, I feel it's too important not to share this no matter what the consequence are, here is a link to it (transmission recording). After listening to it you might want to call your loved ones and tell them you love them.
39 posted on 09/22/2011 11:00:56 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: UCANSEE2

Too much to hope it lands on Beijing?


40 posted on 09/22/2011 11:01:20 AM PDT by icanhasbailout
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