Falling Satellite Expected to Crash Into Earth Soon

ABC News ^ | 11 09 13

[BarnacleCenturion]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- A satellite about the size of a Volkswagen van is on its way back down to Earth. The over one ton satellite is expected to crash land sometime Sunday night or Monday morning. But at this point, it's not clear where.

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

just another incident the Dem’s can blame on the tea-party

[WomBom]

Just keep it in the City... I’m on the outskirts of all that Brotherly love

[Jet Jaguar]

BFLR

[lonevoice]

Haha! Maybe that’s what I saw those couple of nights.

[DYngbld]

I believe N2YO funds the site himself. All the bandwidth in the last day or two may have put him over his monthly quota. I have been using his site for several years for various sats.

I remeember watching Skylab "tumbling" a month or so before it came crashing back to Earth. With all the junk orbiting the Earth it is only a matter of time before some of it hits a house, or kills someone.

[RobinOfKingston]

Two entirely different problems.

The same bunch of incompetents involved.

[Revolting cat!]

[BenLurkin]

It is the set-up for THIS Sci-Fi classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okyVSvYeu8

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Then I saw your post, reloaded the page, and now there’s no detail.

Same thing happened to me. Must be hurtling towards Gaia by now.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Now showing over Niger, of all places. Scotter Libby, duck.

[DYngbld]

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/Track_GOCE

Is a good link.

[Daffynition]

That's me....second from the front....I'm a survivor. Jimmy Twombley, in front of me.....took the bulk of the blast.

[Nuc 1.1]

Beautiful.

[Daffynition]

See post #72....we had the same thought!

If you remember those drills....you're older than dirt [like me!]. LOL

[BenLurkin]

Jimmy was ahead of the curve on the whole cross-dressing thing, looks like.

[Nuc 1.1]

I do remember! A piece of Skylab almost hit a sailboat in the pacific. If I was the owner I wouldn’t play poker.

[cripplecreek]

I think she’ll be down by morning. She’s lost better than 20 miles in altitude over the last 12 hours.

[brityank]

Thanks. Seems site is really getting hammered - can’t get there from here!

Did note that the altitude has dropped from the ~190km to around 120km, so it won’t last much longer. Hope it hits the Pacific/Indian oceans and not land.

[BenLurkin]

It just passed over west of Baffin Bay and is headed for Siberia.

[cripplecreek]

Looks like its next pass will be northward over Michigan if it makes it that far. Hopefully it will be a meteor by then and I can get a pic.