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Huge Tumbling Satellite Could Fall to Earth Over US Tonight or Saturday, NASA Says (UPDATED)
Space.com ^
| 9/23/11
| Tariq Malik
Posted on 09/23/2011 10:07:53 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
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To: IM2MAD
IT should go below Australia and head back to the NW USA
To: djf
It’s also known as Porkland!
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:39:11 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: djf
Earlier reports (estimations) had it spanning out at 500 mile width? Lawdy I hope that’s not true.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:39:45 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Attaaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!!! XD)
To: M_Man
I wish it wasn’t fogged in here on the north OR coast otherwise I might be able to see it! I’ll let you know if it crashes at my place and get something up on Ebay in a flash! LOL!
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:40:18 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
NASA gives 1-hour window for falling satellite
Sep 23 11:16 PM US/Eastern
By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
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FILE - In this file image provided by NASA this is the STS-48 onboard photo...
Charts the debris in space since the 1950s.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge.
The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada and Africa in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn’t entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.
“It just doesn’t want to come down,” said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
McDowell said the satellite’s delayed demise demonstrates how unreliable predictions can be. That said, “the best guess is that it will still splash in the ocean, just because there’s more ocean out there.”
To: cmsgop
Well, the maps don’t zoom in so good, but if it clears the Pacific it will definitely come into the Pacific Northwest...
I don’t think there’s enough time left to get that far...
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:41:18 PM PDT
by
djf
(Buncha sheep: A flock.. Buncha cows: A herd.. Buncha fish: A school.. Buncha baboons: A Congress..)
To: sissyjane
Or I could post the time as GMT -7.0 so you can figure out what the PDT time is!
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:41:38 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: lwoodham
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:42:46 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:43:42 PM PDT
by
sissyjane
(Did you plug the hole yet Daddy????)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Twitter feed says reentry in about .5 hour, 30 minutes. But about half an orbit left before it would get to North America, at current speed, that would be 43 minutes...
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:45:03 PM PDT
by
djf
(Buncha sheep: A flock.. Buncha cows: A herd.. Buncha fish: A school.. Buncha baboons: A Congress..)
To: Jack Hydrazine
One would think the sucker should be throwing sparks now.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:46:01 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
To: djf
It’s lowest altitude so far is 79.2 miles above the Earth. Re-entry starts around 76 miles.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:46:36 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: djf
I was a little worried because earlier reports said it was ‘slowing down’.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:46:36 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Attaaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!!! XD)
To: Jack Hydrazine
"The UARS is over Kenya now"
Obama did this for the place he was born.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:47:01 PM PDT
by
AGreatPer
(Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
To: RaceBannon
between Australia and the south pole now
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:47:31 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
It’s supposed to do that since as it descends the atmosphere gets thicker.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: djf
Just saw a whole squadron of black helicopters overfly headed toward the coast (WA/OR). We’ve got incoming!!!
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Well it is slowing down, it’s losing speed, that’s why it’s losing altitude...
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
djf
(Buncha sheep: A flock.. Buncha cows: A herd.. Buncha fish: A school.. Buncha baboons: A Congress..)
To: steve86
Time to put on the ole Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie sans propeller.
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:49:31 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
09/23/2011 8:50:00 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Attaaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!!!! XD)
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