Posted on 05/07/2015 7:06:31 PM PDT by don-o
Nine days after its launch to the International Space Station went awry, Russia's robotic Progress 59 cargo ship is due to take a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere within hours.
Predictions from a variety of expert analysts — at places ranging from Russia's Roscosmos space agency to the U.S. Strategic Command — call for the Progress to break up in the atmosphere around 10 p.m. to midnight (02:00 to 04:00 UTC), with a margin of uncertainty that extends a couple of hours before or after that time.
"We can exclude any time after early Friday morning," the European Space Agency's Daniel Scuka said in a blog update. "There are some first indications that the likelihood for a re-entry over North America or Europe has dropped significantly."
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LOL, made me laugh.
It never fails; There’s something interesting to see in the sky, and I’m under 100% cloud cover.
Don’t want it to fall on me.
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