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UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:13 pm
by Eric Walch
The predicted 'landing' of the bus-sized
UARS satellite is predicted for today, so, stay in door
But, I am affright that there will only be a few flashes in the sky, and nothing touchable on the soil.
The 20-year-old satellite – the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) – will make an uncontrolled re-entry through the Earth’s atmosphere. Pieces of the 6.5-ton satellite are expected to survive the fiery plunge and hit our planet, although no one knows exactly where.
Se also following
animation.
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:29 pm
by CommonSenseOTB
No problem, my garden has been picked clean already.
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:40 pm
by Killer Wolf
UARS - seriously, could they not pick a better acronym? or is that what you shout when it lands on your house?
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:40 pm
by ClymAngus
apparently something this size drops out of orbit once a year. Usually its a rocket housing or some such.
It's the nuke powered ones you have to watch out for.
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:06 am
by Killer Wolf
i woulda thought any chunk of debris plummetting down from orbit at terminal velocity would be worth watching out for.
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:59 am
by Griff
i stuck a powerful magnet on the roof at work hoping to draw it down, but it think it missed
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:25 am
by CommonSenseOTB
Like this one?
Or this one?
Perhaps its time for a new one?
Every order comes with a free umbrella.
While browsing the catalog who do you think I would run into?
Related to another gourd, perhaps?
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:13 am
by Killer Wolf
Wile-E rules! \nn/
Re: UASR satelite landing in your garden
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:29 am
by Smivs
CommonSenseOTB wrote:
While browsing the catalog who do you think I would run into?
Related to another gourd, perhaps?
Ah, looks like my nephew, Plivs!
