Posted on 03/06/2018 12:18:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
China’s Tiangong-1 is expected to re-enter the atmosphere and crash into Earth in just a few weeks, scientists have warned.
The Aerospace Corporation, a California-based non-profit research and development organization, predicted the 8.5-ton space station will collide into the earth's atmosphere in the first week of April, with error of margin at a week on either side. The European Space Agency estimates the module will crash sometime between March 24 and April 19.
Although experts have not yet determined exactly where the out-of-control module will land, an Aerospace report detailed that it will likely re-enter somewhere in the northern U.S. states, parts of South America, northern China, the Middle east, central Italy, northern Spain, New Zealand, the south of Africa or Tasmania in Australia.
Sounds ominous—but fear not. In a statement, The Aerospace Corporation said: “There is a chance that a small amount of debris from the module will survive reentry and impact the ground. Should this happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few hundred kilometres in size and centered along a point on the Earth that the station passes over.”
“When considering the worst-case location… the probability that a specific person (i.e., you) will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot,” it added.
Timothy Horbury, professor of physics at Imperial College London, backed up those claims. Speaking to Newsweek, he advised that the Tiangong-1 re-entering Earth’s atmosphere is “not something we should be concerned about.”
“No one has ever been hurt by a piece of debris landing from space. The earth is very large so the likelihood someone will get hurt is very low. In 1979, bits of Skylab, America’s first space station, re-entered and landed in Australia. Nobody was hurt,”
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“I’m gonna miss the space needle.”
They’ve already gone and messed it up with the glass floor.
I taught a couple of Chinese friends how to drive. Man! They are cautious! But they didn’t grow up in cars like we do.
Please land in Olympia on the Legislature (Capitol?)
That’s no moon, it’s a space station.
So, if a piece landed in my back yard, I wonder what it would be worth.
Put a tariff on it!
People regularly win the Powerball jackpot
Is that you George?
West to east.
Maybe Elon Musk and SpaceX can contract with the US government to secretly nudge it to fall into North Korea. And let the Norks and China fight each other on it.
I do hope Sandra Bullock and George Clooney will be able to get out of there before it begins its descent.
Screw you and your 1 inch group, that’s crap shooting anyways.
Ottawa! Ottawa! Ottawa!
Don’t stand next to anyone named Georgia.
You can call me ‘peanut.’
Knowing the quality of Chinese metal, it might disintegrate at the first bit of turbulence.
And they claim they know the Earth will warm in the next century without a doubt and yet they can't calculate trajectory of a falling space object?
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