Kinda weird, I posted the message below a while ago, but when I was checking a response to another post I made on this entry, it was gone:
It looks like a normal orbit to me. Any orbit around the globe, when plotted on a map in 2 dimensions, will look "erratic'. It seems like with the regularity of the orbit, it should be possible to estimate the time blocks when the trajectory would put it over the U.S. (or anywhere else in the world), such that there could be a table that shows, for example, between 3:30 and 3:35 EDT, on Saturday, it will be over X portion of the U.S., between 4:25 and 4:30 EDT, on Saturday, it will be over Y portion of the U.S., and so on. That way, if you hear it's coming down, you could look at the table and say, "Oh, looks like it will miss the U.S., or uh oh, I better call Aunt Edna, because it looks like it's going to crash along a line that passes through Kansas".
Kinda weird, I posted the message below a while ago, but when I was checking a response to another post I made on this entry, it was gone:
It looks like a normal orbit to me. Any orbit around the globe, when plotted on a map in 2 dimensions, will look "erratic'. It seems like with the regularity of the orbit, it should be possible to estimate the time blocks when the trajectory would put it over the U.S. (or anywhere else in the world), such that there could be a table that shows, for example, between 3:30 and 3:35 EDT, on Saturday, it will be over X portion of the U.S., between 4:25 and 4:30 EDT, on Saturday, it will be over Y portion of the U.S., and so on. That way, if you hear it's coming down, you could look at the table and say, "Oh, looks like it will miss the U.S., or uh oh, I better call Aunt Edna, because it looks like it's going to crash along a line that passes through Kansas".