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Post  bb1 Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:25 am

Nasa Satellite 'To Hit Earth Within Hours'


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Nasa probe Uars is the size of a bus

Ashish Joshi, Sky News correspondent
A defunct six-ton satellite is hurtling towards earth and is expected to crash within the next 24 hours, but experts have no idea where it will land.
The Nasa Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (Uars) could shower debris anywhere over the six inhabited continents - from as far north as Alaska to the bottom tip of South America.
Satellites as large as Uars re-enter Earth's atmosphere about once a year and Nasa said there have been no reports of any deaths or injuries to people from falling debris.
But space expert Doug Millard at London's Science Museum thinks this one is worth watching.
He said: "This is one of the largest satellites up there.
"It's about the size of a double-decker bus. Most satellites when they come down, they are smaller, they burn up and no one notices. Because of the size it's a little more significant."

Nasa has said the odds of a piece of the Uars debris striking a person is about one in 3,200.
The agency insists most of the 20-year-old probe will burn up in the atmosphere and that the debris will most likely fall into an ocean or land in an uninhabited region of Earth.



That remark probably guarantees it''s going to land in the middle of Red Square....


More at:

http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16075394
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Post  Sabot Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:03 pm


I am going to go out, just to be on the safe side.
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Post  lily Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:13 pm

Those odds are not exactly very encouraging, are they? Shocked
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Post  Lamplighter Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:53 pm

Doubt it will land here, we are insignificant. LL rofl
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Post  bb1 Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:54 pm

It seems its path is being affected by a badly-timed solar flare.

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http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16075394

This is due to the satellite's unpredictable tumbles and changes in the thickness of the atmosphere, which is partly down to a powerful solar flare.
The flare releases highly charged particles in the direction of Earth.

When the particles hit the atmosphere, they cause it to heat up and expand, which in turn affects the density of the air Uars encounters as it falls in orbit.
Nasa said: "The satellite's orientation apparently has changed and that is now slowing its descent.
"There is a low probability any debris that survives re-entry will land in the United States but the possibility cannot be discounted because of this changing rate of descent."


I will refrain from commenting on the satellite's rather unfortunate name.
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Post  bb1 Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:07 pm

What happens if the satellite hits the CERN centre just as a particle is passing lightspeed? hmmm
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Post  Lamplighter Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:32 pm

bb1 wrote:What happens if the satellite hits the CERN centre just as a particle is passing lightspeed? hmmm
Whoops, Apocalypse? LL rofl
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Post  lily Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:03 pm

Lamplighter wrote:
bb1 wrote:What happens if the satellite hits the CERN centre just as a particle is passing lightspeed? hmmm
Whoops, Apocalypse? LL rofl

I'll say..... rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
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Post  bb1 Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:50 pm

Does anyone know when it is supposed to land?
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Post  crazytony Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:58 pm

bb1 wrote:Does anyone know when it is supposed to land?
Following it here
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

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Post  lily Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:04 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034073

The above is also very interesting. Mentions such things as liability.
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Post  lily Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:17 pm

Have just read this on MM, which I have not looked at for ages.

Re: Satellite expected to crash into Earth later today
Lioned Today at 10:22 pm


I heard it had passed over the South East three times tonight and getting lower each time !!


Is that close to Harlow?
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Post  bb1 Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:21 pm

Oh yes.....
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Post  lily Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:27 pm

Oh....... Pcorneater
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Post  muratfan Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:08 am

Just think ...you have nearly 100 times better the odds of getting hit by pieces of this satellite than actually winning the Lottery
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Post  bb1 Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:16 am

Ah well, I won a stonking £5 on the Thunderball tonight..I will try not to let it change my life too much....
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Post  crazytony Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:40 am

bb1 wrote:Ah well, I won a stonking £5 on the Thunderball tonight..I will try not to let it change my life too much....
Don't spend it all at once now smile

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Post  bb1 Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:57 am

rofl rofl rofl

According to Sky, it has landed:

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16076156

though no-one seems too sure where....possibly Canada.
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Post  lily Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:44 pm

rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
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Post  bb1 Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:35 pm

Well, I must say, this is all very disappointing. Suppose it had been a bus-size asteroid? Bruce Willis would have had no chance to save the world while Steve Tyler sang to him.

World Leaders would just have said, Oh, it's going to land somewhere or other? Canada you say? That's OK, then.
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Post  lily Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:38 pm

I can't understand this sloppiness, frankly, Bonny. Pcorneater
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