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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Take down Chicongo!
Chicago....Chicago....Chicago....
IOW, they haven’t got a clue.......................
“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.”
Glad they were able to narrow it down.
The headline writer narrowed it down.
Red China hits US Mainland with Missile....
Unless you get hit by a deorbiting toilet seat.
Can we control it so it hits CA and knocks it off the continent and into the ocean?
Back in the 1950s a woman in Alabama got a nasty bruise from being hit in her side by a meteor. The article forgot about that when it claimed no one has ever been hit by space debris.
Maybe Nuke California and say it was the Chinese satellite?
If it reenters over, let’s say, New Jersey, does it fall straight down ? or does it eventually end up in Indiana ?
The pool has started.
Chicago is in the lead.
Next candidate is Berkley then San Francisco.
Maybe the Pacific Fleet needs to fire-up the USS Port Royal to shoot that puppy down.
Imagine the row if it crashed into Mount Rushmore and knocked the monocle off Teddy Roosevelt.
sometime between March 24 and April 19 it will hit somewhere in the world. Thank you experts. Should we evacuate or shelter in place?
There’s a Chinese driver joke in here somewhere.
West Baltimore.
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