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Space Junk

Noel7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:22:57 GMT

29,000 pieces are supposedly out there now. Optical telescopes are tracking the items and there is hope they may be able to predict where they might land.

Any day now, the Chinese space station is expected to fall. The question is WHERE?

Re: Space Junk

gizmogal — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:35:16 GMT

Most of it will burn up entering the atmosphere at top speed. A scientific web site like NASA stated that it’s a bigger chance for any someone in the USA to win a lotto drawing than to be hit by any of this debris. Large devices that big have fallen out of orbit before and no harm was done. It’s interstingbto contemplate the many places so much of it breaking up can end up, but it’s statistically unlikely there is danger.

If you hear Chicken Little squawking that “the sky is falling”, don’t get scared.

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blackhole99 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:02:50 GMT

The Chinese space station will either burn up on reentry or no doubt fall into the sea. Remember Sky Lab back in the 70's, the mathematicians at NSA tracked that and they were pretty much right on with their calculations where it was going to land in the sea.

Re: Space Junk

Noel7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:01:31 GMT

@blackhole99wrote:
The Chinese space station will either burn up on reentry or no doubt fall into the sea. Remember Space Lab back in the 70's, the mathematicians at NSA tracked that and they were pretty much right on with their calculations where it was going to land in the sea.

Much of the space junk does not burn up, it falls into the Pacific. Many of us

are right next to the Pacific.

Re: Space Junk

blackhole99 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:05:00 GMT

@Noel7Well I guess we'll see, won't we!

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Noel7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:12:04 GMT

@blackhole99wrote:
@Noel7Well I guess we'll see, won't we!

@blackhole99

We will. Someone has come uo with a Space Fence. I’m not quite sure what that means, the explanation sounds like tracking.

Re: Space Junk

RoughDraft — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:33:21 GMT

Not to worry. It will probably fall on that floating island of plastic trash in the Pacific.

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Noel7 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:40:25 GMT

@RoughDraftwrote:
Not to worry. It will probably fall on that floating island of plastic trash in the Pacific.

Oh, yes. Twice the size of Texas. Kind of like a catcher’s mitt @RoughDraft

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jackthebear — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:13:31 GMT

@Noel7wrote:
29,000 pieces are supposedly out there now. Optical telescopes are tracking the items and there is hope they may be able to predict where they might land.

Any day now, the Chinese space station is expected to fall. The question is WHERE?

not worrying about it.

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songbird — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:32:26 GMT

@RoughDraftwrote:
Not to worry. It will probably fall on that floating island of plastic trash in the Pacific.

Absolutely. I never was aware the garbage in the ocean till they were looking for that Maylasian airliner. I was shocked to see stuff like doors, a part of a roof, etc. all floating around in the Pacific Ocean. More junk initally spotted in the Pacific then in the Atalntic oddly enough. But everything flotats around the world over and over. We have fouled our oceans. I don't know how anyone can eat ocean fish.

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151949 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:10:23 GMT

I heard on the news they expect that space station debris to fall somewhere in the northern USA or southern Canada.Hopefully it will fall in the great lakes and just sink.They said it can't really be predicted until it starts to actually fall & they see the projectory.

Re: Space Junk

SilleeMee — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:24:14 GMT

Just minutes ago SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 to deliver more 'junk' into orbit...another group of communications satellites for Iridium Communications Company.

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SilleeMee — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:56:00 GMT

How many things are orbiting the Earth? Well here's a visual for you to guess just how many.

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dex — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:24:03 GMT

@SilleeMee So we have trashed the earth and space too....where do we go from there?

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SilleeMee — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:38:04 GMT

I think that is one of the reasons why we, the human race, are looking to Mars. @dex I believe we will get a second chance to get things right up there. I hope I live long enough to witness the first manned landing on Mars. They are predicting the date will be around the mid 2030s. In that case the person(s) who land on Mars will be one of our young children.

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MorningLover — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:00:02 GMT

The Chinese space station Tiangong-1, has finally

fallen out, crashing into the Earth’s atmosphere.

It met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere Sunday

April 1, breaking apart and burning up in the

skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about

8:16 p.m. EDT

The military has not specified precisely where

it fell, some reports say it's somewhere

between California and Hawaii.

A few pieces may have made it through the

atmosphere, into the ocean. But it’s likely the

majority of the space station burnt up in its

descent.

Space.com notes that what is left of the

craft is likely covered with a toxic rocket fuel.

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dex — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:43:25 GMT

I wonder how toxic the air becomes from the space junk?I think we are all going to have more respitory problems in the future.

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SeaMaiden — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:55:25 GMT

Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

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Noel7 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:44:35 GMT

@SeaMaidenwrote:
Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

Then it's a good thing no one said it was something new @SeaMaiden

The interest on this was the size.

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SeaMaiden — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:30:26 GMT

@Noel7wrote:
@SeaMaidenwrote:
Space junk falls to Earth everyday. It is nothing new.

I am more concerned about all the plastic clogging up our oceans.... Now that is something to worry about affecting your life.....

Then it's a good thing no one said it was something new @SeaMaiden

The interest on this was the size.

@Noel7 A poster showed a map of all the Space junk encircling the Earth.... so it was not just about size.