Posted on 02/15/2009 3:16:13 PM PST by PAR35
Sunday around 11:00 a.m. people from Plano to Houston, and even as far north as Nebraska, reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing debris falling from the sky. Many residents in Navarro and Hill counties reported that their houses shook along with the explosion.
In a conference call to local reporters, the FAA said they believe the cause of the explosion is two satellites that collided in space Tuesday. The American and Russian satellites collided 500 miles above the Siberian region of Russia.
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Two satellites collide in orbit. Indeed! A defunct Russkie Cosmos bird rammed into a US commercial Iridium bird about 5oo miles up.
Apparently one of the larger chunks of debris was knocked out of orbital velocity, and it took until today for its orbit to to decay and finally the chunk (maybe a mostly intact satellite) enter the atmosphere at thousands of mile per hour over the lower mid-west US, creating a sonic boom and the chunk broke up raining down debris.
There's something going on Fur Shur!
IT WORKS - IT WORKS
one down / 30 more to go
I suspect Iranian space junk soon !
Iran launches a satellite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQq_ijPfvY
and
http://www.bautforum.com/space-exploration/84306-we-have-satellite-iran-orbit-what-next.html
Two satellites collide?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Two-satellites-collide-in-space
and
http://www.bautforum.com/space-exploration/84651-satellites-collide.html
The tinfoil legionaires are all abuzz over this—the concesus is that the Iranians launched a killer satellite and, with Russia’s approval and cooperation, took out these two ‘lites either by design (both) or hit the one and it in turn took out the other. Hmmmmmmm. . . .
The BAUT (Bad Astronomy and Universe Today) forums have understandable rational scientific and techincal explanations, and a wealth of excellent charts, maps, and plenty of numbers to crunch for those who are so inclined.
Two nuke subs collide?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2240543.ece
It just keeps getting “curiouser and curiouser.”
iridium
Look into the light.
They are talking about UFOs, over here :’)
I found myself checking collision dates. For some reason I wondered about the AE that went down. Seems this was several days before though?
Was it a shared mission bird?
“Excuse me but sound WILL NOT travel in a vacuum.”
THen you’ve never heard my Hoover snag a paper clip.
“Was it a Keyhole Sat?”
I heard it was an Iridium sat.
“They are talking about UFOs, over here :’)”
You do realize you have now extended this thread into the millions of postings.
Follow the money. ;)
“So this collision was roughly the equivalent of lobbing 5 tons of TNT at the satellites.”
At almost 90 degree impact.
Talk about a Smack!
And the debris could impact other space craft.
Do you think Putin is trying to put out our eyes?
Thanks for links:
“Marine Corps General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former head of the command that runs U.S. military space operations, said countries with satellites in space will have to play “dodgeball” for decades to avoid debris from the collision. It occurred about 485 miles”
There were 74 of those puppies up there. Wow!
The part about the debris is a a really big deal. Instead of two big hunks-o-technology zipping around at, what is it ~17,000 mph we now have an uncountable number of smaller bits and chunks—thousands? “millions upon millions?” (heh, he, Carl) from who knows what sized components and shards down to microscopic “particles.” Those little buggers are every bit as problematic and “deadly” as the bigger ones as one article describes it, “it just becomes a shotgun slamming into a shotgun sending more shotguns into other shotguns”—chaos ad infinitum. Real "Shooting stars."
Everything I am seeing agrees that this is only the beginning and that this chain-reaction turned perpetual motion/collision machine will go on for many years—some say hundreds and some figure even longer than that. That debris cloud will not only expand but has the potential and a high probability of eventually making debris clouds of whatever it encounters as it zips through orbiting flotsam surrounding the planet.
Putin? Hard to say. He is a chessplayer's chessplayer. I thought the Rooskie bird was a dead canary, space junk. The Iridium was something altogether different. Follow the money. ;)
lol Winner!
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