Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 34,150 Location: temperate zone
08 May 2021, 3:44 pm
At this moment its a 100 miles up, over the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A little north of the Solomon Islands.
Good harmless place for it to be.
But its still orbiting full speed. But its not much above the stratosphere now. So it has to start plowing into the atmosphere and start to tumble soon. But how soon? Soon enough to tumble into the Pacific- and harm no one? Or will it fall on inhabited dry land?
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 34,150 Location: temperate zone
08 May 2021, 3:47 pm
Its fast!. In the time it took me to write the above post it moved from near the Solomons to near Samoa. Several hundred miles. And it dropped six miles in height.
I am betting that its gonna fall on the "ice cream cone" of south america, and squash someone in either Chile, or in Argentina!
Joined: 6 May 2016 Age: 60 Gender: Male Posts: 3,965 Location: Missouri
08 May 2021, 5:25 pm
Ah, Scott Manley, he has a great channel.
_________________ "There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good." Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 34,150 Location: temperate zone
08 May 2021, 5:40 pm
No one is in it. Its abandoned space junk.
He says if you live farther from the Equator than either 42 degrees north, or 42 degrees south, you're in the clear.
That would be all of the UK, Russia, Canada, and all of Europe north of the French Riviera.
But less than that?
We in the Washington DC are at 39 North Latitude so...WERE GONNA DIE!! !!
Actually there is a small chance that you (in Africa, China, Latin America or anywhere in the US south of Boston) or I might get beaned by some piece of it. Pray that it all tumbles into the sea.
Its now a 100 miles above the middle of the Brazilian jungle at this moment. Heading north east to the mouth of Amazon on the Atlantic.