Posted on 05/06/2021 10:18:11 AM PDT by rktman
U.S. Space Command said Tuesday that a 46,000-pound Chinese rocket that is orbiting the planet is expected to make an uncontrolled fall into the atmosphere on or around Saturday, placing people and cities worldwide at risk.
The command said in a news release that it was "aware of and tracking the location of the Chinese Long March 5B in space" but would not be able to pinpoint the location at which it will fall into the Earth's atmosphere "until within hours of its reentry, which is expected around May 8."
This has raised concerns because no one knows the precise location where the debris will fall.
The debris from the rocket, as it disintegrates while breaking into the Earth's atmosphere, could potentially land in the U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, India, China, or Australia, according to CBS News.
SpaceNews reported the Long March 5B core stage’s orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees places it within range of possibly falling anywhere "farther north than New York, Madrid, and Beijing, and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It should aim for Beijing
...orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees places it within range of possibly falling anywhere “farther north than New York, Madrid, and Beijing,
It will fall somewhere between 41.5 degrees North latitude and 41.5 degrees South latitude.
Rockets keep fallin on my head
With my luck....
Well that narrows it down. They should use some other word than "land", like "crash". It's not like this landing is going to be "nominal".
If it hits a house and does damage, will the Chicoms pay for it?..........................
Just in case, all the WDC Ds should be gathered in one place over the weekend for a planning session. Maybe we will get lucky ...
So will an umbrella work to protect me?
If there is any cosmic justice at all, that is exactly where the space junk should land. The Chinese Communist regime most richly deserves such divine retribution.
If not Beijing, then most certainly Wuhan.
How much will the pieces from this be worth on ebay?
Or is the government going to claim all of it?
Bill Whittle did a great video this past year talking about how the ChiComs launched a rocket, right over and within sight of a grade school, and...the rocket came crashing back to earth.
It didn’t hit the grade school, but...it was right under where it launched.
Bill Whittle compared it to the way the West (that ostensibly DOES gives a crap about the lives of their citizens) launches rockets, we do it out over the ocean or in sparsely populated places.
They had a rocket fail and come down on a village back in 1996 that they said killed six people, but other sources say it was hundreds.
Hm. Who, oh, who should we believe?
Rideau Cottage is located at 1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, Ontario. As Prime Mistake Justin Cockwomble is such a fan of communist China, perhaps he may get up close and personal to ChiCom technology.
I know the Bible says that we shouldn't delight in the misfortunes of others, but Karma, as they say, is a b#tch.
The crash site will be about equal to the plane that went down in PA on 9/11.
Our navy should use it for target practice. Really.
I need a new roof...1st estimate on a 1560q ft house was 12 grand. Jesse James did it with a gun.
Article is wrong.
Here’s the line it won’t get north of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_parallel_north
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