URGENT: NASA: U.S. back in UARS satellite strike zone!!!!

Perhaps they don't want to give the location too quickly *especially if the debris is near population* so that people don't flock to the area to try to grab a piece?

Originally posted by cloaked4u

Originally posted by seeker11

Originally posted by cloaked4u
talk about slow, it still going on on the site i'm on, i would of got hit by a comet thinking it was still in the sky. Google sat track - uars absolutely NO GOOD, For timming on that sort of thing. Some of us were on different sites all over, watching it in different times. Now the lesson learned here is all about information and how slow it comes in and we are the LAST to hear about anything. How true.

Except that it was a simulation, a prediction of sorts of the orbital path of the satellite, but this was mentioned many times before.

OH, so there is no sat falling from space, IT WAS A SIMULATION, as you say, A PREDICTION. Why was this on the news then?

Ugh...

Never mind.

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Here I am, alone with my Butterfly Net and waiting... if this thing comes down near
here, then I'm gonna grab as it flys over.
It's a good net... I've reinforced the 'neck-area' with electrician's tape.

Edit: Oh... and I have oven-mitts on because it'll be quite warm.

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Hahahaha...sorry for the off topic one liner, but, I could actually feel your frustration!

Originally posted by seeker11

Originally posted by cloaked4u

Originally posted by seeker11

Originally posted by cloaked4u
talk about slow, it still going on on the site i'm on, i would of got hit by a comet thinking it was still in the sky. Google sat track - uars absolutely NO GOOD, For timming on that sort of thing. Some of us were on different sites all over, watching it in different times. Now the lesson learned here is all about information and how slow it comes in and we are the LAST to hear about anything. How true.

Except that it was a simulation, a prediction of sorts of the orbital path of the satellite, but this was mentioned many times before.

OH, so there is no sat falling from space, IT WAS A SIMULATION, as you say, A PREDICTION. Why was this on the news then?

Ugh...

Never mind.

Mentioned many times before, AS YOU STATED.

Good news : NASA finally pinpoints reentry location!!!

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Sorry, i meant the Tv-channel, and they were just stating that, without anything more..............wait.....................now they said that it's not clear , but likely in Canada.

news.sky.com... , (Live TV only for U.K and Ireland)

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That's a really good thought Seeker11. There are 'lots of people up here too though. Somebody ought to have noticed something.....

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Oh, Ok thanks then. I don't get regular television programming, only netflix haha.

why is it still tracking at an altitude of 155 km?

sorry i know it's a sim,,,
but??
not accurate? gone down,,
which?

ohh and i thought it wasn't supposed too make it out of African Continent?

2 hours ago?

I'm confused. I thought there were satellites with cameras strong enough to read license plates. Why can no one "see" a 6 ton flaming object?

Originally posted by Givenmay

Reuters news agency reports indicate that people in the western Nigerian town of Ogbomosho saw shooting stars in the pre-dawn sky at approx. 5:45 am on Sept 24 that has tentatively been identified as the likely debris from the UARS satellite. But Reuters has not posted this information on the web. Other reports are indicating it has come down in northern Quebec, Canada.

Wikipedia

I looked up a bit, the sky was nice and clear, there were so many trees around that I did not have a very big view...at about 10:15 PM here in East Texas I had seen a nice shooting star...I suppose...thirty minutes later one near the same place, just didn't last as long!

In that case it would have fell over the Atalantic, and the Canadians are full of $%$%

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THEY can, but they won't show us.

Actually, they can read what's written on sb hand, i bet.

Originally posted by seeker11

Originally posted by cloaked4u

Originally posted by seeker11

Originally posted by cloaked4u
talk about slow, it still going on on the site i'm on, i would of got hit by a comet thinking it was still in the sky. Google sat track - uars absolutely NO GOOD, For timming on that sort of thing. Some of us were on different sites all over, watching it in different times. Now the lesson learned here is all about information and how slow it comes in and we are the LAST to hear about anything. How true.

Except that it was a simulation, a prediction of sorts of the orbital path of the satellite, but this was mentioned many times before.

OH, so there is no sat falling from space, IT WAS A SIMULATION, as you say, A PREDICTION. Why was this on the news then?

Ugh...

Never mind.

SEEKER 11 says that it was a SIMILATION. here is what she said.

apparently it has fallen. NASA doesn't know the immediate location.......suuure. Article here: Yahoo News

Well this is totally lame. I'm going with that they don't want to tell people where it landed yet, so maybe they can retrieve the pieces first, and avoid having people go pick them up themselves. I don't see why else they wouldn't be telling us where it landed. I mean if it was in the Ocean, then they probably would have told us right away?

Their last two tweets on twitter involved this very subject...

NASA
@GordonBossman Liability for damage caused by space debris is regulated by a 1972 international treaty that the U.S. has signed on to.
29 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

NASA
@LennarddeHeer Any pieces of #UARS found are still the property of the country that made it. You'll have to give 'em back to U.S.
twitter.com...#!/NASA

So that's my guess anyways.

wow!
2nd

so ARE WE, to believe that this was a SIMILATION?

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First, simUlation, second, the website that you are "watching" the satellite orbit the Earth, is a...wait for it...simulation. Not the actual satellite, just the website graphic of the satellite and the curvy lines it follows.

Welp. Thats it then.
Awww, I feel sad like I did when YouTube pulled the little dead alien chicken video from Siberia.
That was fun while it lasted. We need more impactors.
Maybe we could take up a collection, hack into the satellite belt and crash some of those together up there.
Then we could all get together again and wonder who's gonna get it.
West Coast Glow Stick signing off...nite all.