UARS Satellite

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So this thing falling from the sky. The gov. says if you find a piece call the local police. You can not keep it. It belongs to the Gov. 2 cents of mine went toward that. I'm keep'n it:beerbang:
 
katiespapa said:
So this thing falling from the sky. The gov. says if you find a piece call the local police. You can not keep it. It belongs to the Gov. 2 cents of mine went toward that. I'm keep'n it:beerbang:
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Good luck with keeping it. I live in the area where the shuttle broke up. Every official you could think of was on top of my small town like ducks on Junebugs.
 
I remember watching tv and your right. They had people everywhere. Lots of farm land as far as i can remember. Terrible day.

Side note. My avatar is the vette sr. and jr. drove in the 24 hours of daytona. Have an 1/18 scale on my desk. Just say'n
 
Based on this description, looks like it's going to re-enter on the downswing from canada to africa, and the upswing from africa to australia.

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Update #11
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:30:46 PM CST

As of 7 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 90 miles by 95 miles (145 km by 150 km). Re-entry is expected between 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 3 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3 a.m. to 7 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada, Africa and Australia, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

Live tracking (supposedly): http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.381.swf?cid=5336250&autoplay=false
 
As of 10:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 85 miles by 90 miles (135 km by 140 km). Re-entry is expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite will be passing over Canada and Africa, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety is very remote.
 
based on that update, those on the west coast should look west/northwest/north, Those of us CST should be looking northwest/north/northeast, and east coast looking northeast to east, as it passes over canada
 
It's less than 80 mile altitude- very limited viewing range now. Should start burning in 30 minutes or less.
 
Minimum Perigee was 126 KM and it has comes back up, no approach this pass over US. Just passed due over Seattle. Now on downswing towards Africa.
 
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Update #13
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:55:17 PM CST

As of 10:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 85 miles by 90 miles (135 km by 140 km). Re-entry was expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT). During that time period, the satellite was passing over Canada and Africa, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The risk to public safety was very remote. NASA is working to confirm the re-entry location and time and will provide an update shortly.
 
twitter is getting entertaining...

I'm retweeting the funny ones, I'll post them later on.
 
NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said the satellite penetrated the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The precise re-entry time and location are not yet known with certainty.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
 
#17D500winner said:
NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said the satellite penetrated the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The precise re-entry time and location are not yet known with certainty.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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I never could find my hard-hat. :D
 
David Letterman was funny last night. He said that Nasa said that the chances of getting hit by the satelite were very remote but, just in case, they encouraged people leaving the theatre to run in a zig-zag pattern as they left.
 
They say it fell to Earth but NASA says they don't know where.:rolleyes: I find that very hard to believe.
 
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