Thursday, September 22, 2011

Scientists track falling satellite expected to hit Earth this week


Have you ever wonder what would happen if a falling satellite was about to hit earth in a week? Well a satellite will hit the earth this Friday. Scientist predicted that the satellite will most probably in water or on an uninhabited place. Since water covers most of the planet it is most likely it will also fall into water. The Chances of someone being hit by it is 1 out of 32000, but the chances of you being hit are 6 times less than winning the lottery. Most of NASA’s six ton Satellite would disintegrate on entering the atmosphere but there are still some parts that could cause serious damage. They say that 26 hazardous parts will enter the atmosphere intact weighting about 500 kilograms and moving at the speed of 90 to 380kph. It doesn’t seem like lots of speed but depending on how much it weights it will crush anything. There was also another satellite from Germany was going 28000 miles per hour but it landed in water so there were no casualties. 30 parts of the satellite entered the atmosphere weight with combined mass of one and a half ton. The satellite was launched at 1991 and decommissioned at 2005. The agency will make further updates as when the object is coming closer. NASA said that if any part of the derby lands near someone that they return the object by contacting the local police. Although there might be some arguments of if it lands on private property some people might not want to return it.

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