Something don’t smell right with this whole thing....... it’s orbiting erratically for starters and “experts” say they don’t know where it’s gonna land ?? Unless I’m missing something big I find that hard to believe .... the world has been shooting stuff into space for almost 70 years now and have always been able to know where the re entry items would land with some degree of accuracy ...... what’s the diff with this one
It technically is always falling. ISS is in a low enough orbit that the very thin atmosphere there slows it down slowly and without regular thrust to maintain orbit would decay back to earth. It blew my mind when I learned how far out the atmosphere goes (like individual molecules, not thick air, just enough to gradually slow down orbits)
And it did. I remember driving w my aunt n grandmother listening to it on the car radio.
I think it fell in Australia . Ok factually I was paying more attention to my pet rock at the time. ?
Controlled (i.e. thrust-vectored) re-entries of objects with known and planned orientation / orbital dynamics are much easier to predict than this hunk-o-junk
I briefly heard on the news continental US - likely somewhere between IL and NY. I think they don't want people to panic. The thing weighs 18 tons. They think 4-5 tons will reach earth. Most things this size usually land in the pacific and don't cause a problem as a result. However, 4-5 tons of debris landing on a continent is going to be huge. It's the equivalent of 8-10 airplane crashes.
Something don’t smell right with this whole thing....... it’s orbiting erratically for starters and “experts” say they don’t know where it’s gonna land ?? Unless I’m missing something big I find that hard to believe .... the world has been shooting stuff into space for almost 70 years now and have always been able to know where the re entry items would land with some degree of accuracy ...... what’s the diff with this one
Uummm...cuz it’s Chinese junk?
r/chinesium
Nahh...the Chyneez prolly own half the County.
I am old enough to remember a political cartoon of a chicken running around yelling 'The Skylab is falling! The Skylab is falling!'
It technically is always falling. ISS is in a low enough orbit that the very thin atmosphere there slows it down slowly and without regular thrust to maintain orbit would decay back to earth. It blew my mind when I learned how far out the atmosphere goes (like individual molecules, not thick air, just enough to gradually slow down orbits)
And it did. I remember driving w my aunt n grandmother listening to it on the car radio. I think it fell in Australia . Ok factually I was paying more attention to my pet rock at the time. ?
Did you also get the "Sand Breeding Kit"? :)
Controlled (i.e. thrust-vectored) re-entries of objects with known and planned orientation / orbital dynamics are much easier to predict than this hunk-o-junk
I briefly heard on the news continental US - likely somewhere between IL and NY. I think they don't want people to panic. The thing weighs 18 tons. They think 4-5 tons will reach earth. Most things this size usually land in the pacific and don't cause a problem as a result. However, 4-5 tons of debris landing on a continent is going to be huge. It's the equivalent of 8-10 airplane crashes.
If they really put no effort in to track its descent, they wouldn't be able to provide that data to anyone else either.