DUARS Satellite Re-Entry: Impressive Light Show & Potential Debris Threat

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The UARS satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend, moving faster than initially predicted. NASA estimates a 1-in-3200 chance of debris hitting someone on the ground, although this statistic is misleading as it reflects the likelihood of at least one person being hit globally. The satellite's trajectory covers a wide area, but the strike zone will narrow as the re-entry date approaches. Discussions among forum members include humorous suggestions for safety and the potential for an impressive light show during the satellite's descent. Overall, while the risk exists, the probability of any specific individual being struck remains extremely low.
  • #151
As projected: It just hit the southern-most point and is heading North over the Pacific towards Oregon now.
 
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  • #152
Ivan Seeking said:
As projected: It just hit the southern-most point and is heading North over the Pacific towards Oregon now.

Where are you following this (data) please and will you get a shot at it? thanks
 
  • #153
Nada
 
  • #155
  • #157
Janus said:
According to this tracking site, it is just passing over the horn of Africa.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/5336250

Any links that normal people can see?
 
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  • #158
It just passed over southern Australia and appears to be heading for Canada if it make it that far.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/theweatherspace-news

Lots of ads here
 
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  • #159
According to Polish news sites it went down somewhere near Okotoks in Canada.

But we will not know for sure till Evo gets on line.
 
  • #161
OK move along folks, there's nothing to see. It just fell on Canada, that's all.
 
  • #162
Last I heard, it was in the Pac ocean.
 
  • #163
Uh oh - Evo pm'd me last night saying she was leaving on a last minute cruise to Alaska! And I haven't heard from her since!
 
  • #164
Last night I kept thinking it may be bye bye Ivan. I walked out into the pasture and sat down near the creek, on a spot that allowed for the best view of the SW sky. As I sat alone in the dark, I began to consider that we've had a bear on the property recently [a first as far as we know], and I was sitting about twenty feet from the one place that might make a good den if the bear is actually living on the property. I've been walking around here in the dark for twenty years, often without a flashlight, but last night I felt a sense of relief as I walked back to my office.
 
  • #165
russ_watters said:
Uh oh - Evo pm'd me last night saying she was leaving on a last minute cruise to Alaska! And I haven't heard from her since!
I guess I can take my tin foil hat off now. Who says these things don't work?

Ivan, walking around in the dark among bears is a bad idead, bad.
 
  • #166
Evo said:
I guess I can take my tin foil hat off now. Who says these things don't work?

Just don't get rid of it. You may need it again.

[PLAIN]http://www.esa.int/images/Bee-Hive-6_L.jpg
 
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  • #167
[PLAIN]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/funny-pictures-star-light-star-bright-first-star-i-see-tonight-i-wish-i-may-i-wish-i-might.jpg
 
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  • #168
lisab said:
[PLAIN]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/funny-pictures-star-light-star-bright-first-star-i-see-tonight-i-wish-i-may-i-wish-i-might.jpg[/QUOTE]OMG! That's fantastic!
 
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  • #169
I tried to find a clip of Rick's funeral, from Northern Exposure, and was going to post it, carefully edited, as Evo's funeral, but that clip is impossible to find!

For those who weren't Northern Exposure fans, poor Rick was killed by a satellite strike. Unfortunately, special modifications were needed for the casket because Rick and the satellite had "fused and become one".

... As the unusually-shaped casket rolls into the church, antennae sticking out in all directions, the funeral attendees do their best to hold it back but soon break out in riotous laughter...
 
  • #170
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vw4TPgPAw

Not that I ever seen Northern Exposure. But it wasn't really hard to find :-p
 
  • #171
BYE EVO!

@Lisab, that is the funniest thing I've seen in the last hour! :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #172
Borek said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vw4TPgPAw

Not that I ever seen Northern Exposure. But it wasn't really hard to find :-p

Too funny! If you look at the date, this was uploaded after I tried to find it. I guess I wasn't the only one reminded of Rick's funeral by the rogue satellite.
 
  • #173
Evo said:
I guess I can take my tin foil hat off now. Who says these things don't work?

Ivan, walking around in the dark among bears is a bad idead, bad.

dlgoff said:
Just don't get rid of it. You may need it again.

[PLAIN]http://www.esa.int/images/Bee-Hive-6_L.jpg[/QUOTE]

Speaking of which, Dead German Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week

Bye, bye Evo ... again.
 
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  • #174
Is there a site to track the path?

Predicted to hit Oct 21-23rd. End of the World is Oct 21st according to Harold Camping.
 
  • #175
Evo said:
Is there a site to track the path?

Predicted to hit Oct 21-23rd. End of the World is Oct 21st according to Harold Camping.

Maybe it's going to fall on Harold Camping :eek:!
 
  • #176
lisab said:
Maybe it's going to fall on Harold Camping :eek:!
I vote for Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, KS.
 
  • #177
Astronuc said:
I vote for Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, KS.
I second that. You must have seen the recent rebroadcast of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Hated_Family_in_America" ? I couldn't tolerate watching the entire program.

Even though I live within ~20 miles from them; bring on the space junk.
 
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  • #178
Holy Crap, its the Satellite.
Lisa,

Did you find that or add the text yourself ? Cute...

Rhody...
 
  • #179
lisab said:
Maybe it's going to fall on Harold Camping :eek:!

Well, wouldn't he just be insufferably smug to be proven right! :biggrin:
 
  • #180
  • #181
Here we go again, get ready to http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111019-satellite-fall-earth-rosat-space-debris-nasa-science/" everybody...
ROSAT poses greater risk of someone being hit by space debris, officials say.

If you see a large glowing object plummeting from the sky late Saturday or early Sunday, duck.

The German Aerospace Center, which led the development and construction of ROSAT, estimates that the chance of anyone being harmed by debris from the satellite is 1 in 2,000. For NASA's UARS, the injury risk was roughly a third lower, at 1 in 3,200

Rhody...
 
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  • #182
rhody said:
Here we go again, get ready to http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111019-satellite-fall-earth-rosat-space-debris-nasa-science/" everybody...


Rhody...
I've been tracking it and it's coming waay too close to me.
 
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  • #183
Evo said:
I've been tracking it and it's coming waay too close to me.
Don't say that Evo, you will jinx yourself, think positive. If Powerball hasn't been won tomorrow, jackpot is over 127 million, I will buy a ticket.

Rhody...
 
  • #184
So what ever happened to the falling satellite?

Was http://wimp.com/nasasatellite/" it's fate?

(psssssst, (spoiler): G-men come by to claim it)
 
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  • #185
Ouabache said:
So what ever happened to the falling satellite?

Was http://wimp.com/nasasatellite/" it's fate?

(psssssst, (spoiler): G-men come by to claim it)
:smile:

I'm crying!
 
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  • #186
So many satellites, only one Evo.
 
  • #187
Jimmy Snyder said:
So many satellites, only one Evo.
One of them is bound to get me.
 
  • #188
Here's how I imagine your backyard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0
 
  • #189
Jimmy Snyder said:
Here's how I imagine your backyard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0
:smile:
 
  • #190
Jimmy Snyder said:
So many satellites, only one Evo.

She sings to the stars
And smiles with her eyes
A fading glimpse
A trick of the light

She floats along
With breathless sighs
A lonely beacon in the night

But to you
She's just another satellite
A distant vision
Whose orbit has decayed
She closes her eyes
And she shuts out the light
She says
Everything looks better that way

Once or twice
Could never make her lose her place
But all her life
Could send her spinning off in space
Some may say
Its not the end
Of the human race
But to her
It feels the same

She floats alone
Across the sun
She drifts from day
Into night

She feels like
She's the only one
But she's one of billions in the night

"Lonely, Like a Satellite" - A Covenant of Thorns
 
  • #191
That reminds me

Mars%20Rovers.jpg
 
  • #193
<sigh> I'm a space debris magnet.
 
  • #194
Evo said:
<sigh> I'm a space debris magnet.
No, you somehow destabilize their orbits causing them to decay and fall back to earth. Then, its duck and cover time... repeatedly... hehe... Have you noticed how many have suffered the same fate since this thread started ? Coincidence ?

Rhody...
 
  • #195
rhody said:
No, you somehow destabilize their orbits causing them to decay and fall back to earth. Then, its duck and cover time... repeatedly... hehe... Have you noticed how many have suffered the same fate since this thread started ? Coincidence ?

Rhody...

You don't suppose her gravity field is what caused the results of the OPERA neutrino experiment? :rolleyes:
 
  • #196
dlgoff said:
You don't suppose her gravity field is what caused the results of the OPERA neutrino experiment? :rolleyes:
Come, come...the Supreme Lard is not all that massive.
 
  • #197
: takes one gigantic step away lest the Perma-ban beam catches him in its 'Large Crowd' mode :
 
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  • #198
DaveC426913 said:
: takes one gigantic step away lest the Perma-ban beam catches him in its 'Large Crowd' mode :
:smile:

Rhody...
 
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  • #199
Evo said:
As most of you know the UARS satellite is returning to Earth this weekend...ooops!

And apparently the trajectory is right over Evo's house. :rolleyes: :bugeye:

http://news.yahoo.com/fema-prepares...NidXNpbmVzcwRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2UEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3

So, could some of our brilliant astrophysicists do a quick back of napkin projection of when my house will burst into flames?

Just read this post..
My first thoughts were .. hmmmm 'over' Evo's house. Ah well that's ok then.
Over, is way better than the termination point of ...
Get some photo's if you can. :) someones snap shot is going to be out-of-this-world.


Hmmm.
Does my 'household insurance' cover this?


So far, the saying. ... What goes up, must come down, is getting some good press.
 
  • #200
Sorry Evo,

I bet you never thought this would go on and on, huh ?! First it was decaying satelitte's, now an asteroid, and about the size of an aircraft carrier. I bet that would ruin your whole day impacting at any angle at a velocity of about 30,000 mph or more. Let's hope the calculations about closest approach (325,000 kms) are correct, inside our moon's orbit but no closer, and for once, you can breathe a sigh of relief.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=asteroid-plans-close-earth-flyby-11-11-01"

Rhody... :devil:
 
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