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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What a way for sneak attack. Load up a few nukes...announce a satellite crash and boom....there goes a couple of key US locations.
So, we should all move to Finland, then, to avoid being hit?
I’m hoping it hits the proposed site for the Obama Presentdential Liberry.
It would be funny if it landed on Chinatown.
I’m happy they have a handle on where the bulls eye is LOL.
Pelosi’s house......
Maryland is already a lost cause, but Virginia might be saved if Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, etc. were to be wiped out.
;-)
I like the way you think...
;-)
The sound it makes when it hits the Earth.
Just remember, this is something they can easily observe, and for which the math is extremely well understood. Yet they still can’t give a precise estimate, and we’re supposed to believe predictions about the climate 100 years from now? Nonsense.
Basically, they have no clue where the debris might impact or when it will happen
When you get hit by a piece of Chinese space debris, an hour later you’re ready to get hit again.
Something a 'few weeks off' and "LIKELY" to hit.
What a crock of clickbait.
“...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...or on Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails.
I’m gonna miss the space needle.
MRV debris.
Literally verbatim what I thought.
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