{"id":40735,"date":"2011-10-23T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:14","slug":"doomed-rosat-captured-in-video-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/doomed-rosat-captured-in-video-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Doomed ROSAT captured in video | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I actually kinda half-expected this would happen: the fantastic \"amateur\" astronomer Thierry Legault was able to observe and get video<\/a> of the astronomical satellite ROSAT<\/a> as it’s making its final orbits around the Earth:<\/p>

He also observed it on October 16th<\/a>, but I think the video above from late September shows it better. <\/p>

To show you how good this is, I took an image he provided of stills from his video and added a drawing of the satellite below them:<\/p>

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Amazingly, in Thierry’s images you can clearly see the boom extending from the satellite’s main body (at the bottom of the photos, and off to the left in the drawing). That boom holds a magnetometer (to measure the Earth’s magnetic field) and an antenna used to communicate with Earth. From what I can tell, the boom is about 4.4 meters (14.4 feet) in length. In that September image, ROSAT was over 450 km (270 miles) away from Thierry when he took it!<\/p>

Current models predict<\/a> ROSAT will plunge to Earth on October 23rd, sometime around 11:00 UTC (7:00 a.m. Eastern US time). Follow ROSAT_reentry<\/a> on Twitter for the latest info.<\/p>

Related posts:<\/p>

- YouTube video where I explain a satellite re-entry<\/a>
- BREAKING: SpySat successfully hit by missile<\/a>
- Atlantis, one last time in the Sun<\/a>
- SERIOUSLY jaw-dropping pictures of Endeavour and the ISS!<\/a><\/p>

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