{"id":40760,"date":"2011-10-23T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/here-comes-rosat\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:38","slug":"here-comes-rosat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/here-comes-rosat.php","title":{"rendered":"Here comes ROSAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist concept of ROSAT. Credit: NASA\/JPL<\/p><\/div>

No sooner than we made it past the UARS satellite re-entry, we have another satellite about make an uncontrolled re-entry and pieces of it will make it to the ground.<\/p>

The satellite is the ROSAT<\/a>, you might recall a picture I posted last week released from Chandra X-ray Telescope which was a collaborative effort involving ROSAT<\/a>.  ROSAT<\/a> is a 2.4 ton satellite about the size of a car and while some of it will burn up, about 1.6 tons worth of it consisting of around 30 pieces will not and end up on the ground.<\/p>

Where will they end up?  Again no one knows but your odds of being hit are better than they were in the UARS re-entry, this time around being 1:2000.  Don’t worry about those numbers too much, if all the people in the world were lined up along the flight path then yeah, 1:2000 but in reality the odds are much slimmer than that.  Not saying it won’t happen mind you, but I’m not going to move into a cave.<\/p>

The big question for me will be whether or not they (they being NASA and other space agencies) can do a better job of narrowing down impact time and location than they did with UARS, which IMHO wasn’t all that good and I’m not pointing a finger,  I hope they have better luck.<\/p>

So when?  Again nobody knows,  I’ve heard everything from this coming weekend to Halloween; again,  it’s a pretty difficult task to predict exactly and its not like they aren’t trying.<\/p>

If you would like to see if there are any visible passes coming your way you can go to Spaceweather.com<\/a> and if you would like to see where ROSAT is N2YO.com<\/a> has a nice live tracker.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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