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  • Location: Heswall, Wirral
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: warm, humid, thundery. Winter: mild, stormy, some snow.
  • Location: Heswall, Wirral

Thats funny... "if it lands in my garden can I keep it?"

By which stage you won't have a garden, but you will have a giant divot.

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  • Location: Milton Keynes MK
  • Weather Preferences: anything extreme or intense !
  • Location: Milton Keynes MK

NASA has advised anyone that comes into contact with the satellite to call the authorities as soon as possible....

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....they haven't explained how you're supposed to do this when you are squashed flat under their space junk !!

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District

Last passes of UARs over the UK will be tonight before it ends up wherever it does.

22:38:37 - 22:40:18 (SW-ENE) -1.2

01:41.22 - 01:42.53 (NW to NW) 1.1

03:12:21 - 03:13:58 (WNW to SE) -0.9

I'm assuming that the 03:12 will be the last chance of seeing UARs, given its closer to astronomical twilight at the Equinox. I'd imagine that any later passes would be non-existent by tomorrow evening/night however anyway.

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  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire
  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire

A sattelite is predicted crash somewhere on earth during the next 36 hours. Hopefully it won't be my house and hopefully it would end up destroying a home or killing someone.

Does anyone have any predictions on where this is going to fall.

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Can we merge this with the thread in space, science and nature please.

[shuggee] - Your wish is my command

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701

Eek, right over the United Kingdom.

Well let's hope it strikes in the middle of Siberia or better yet the Atlantic/Pacific/Indian.

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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

A sattelite is predicted crash somewhere on earth during the next 36 hours. Hopefully it won't be my house and hopefully it would end up destroying a home or killing someone.

Does anyone have any predictions on where this is going to fall.

Do you not think you should rephrase that,

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  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire
  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire

That link isn't working for me unfortuantly.

I've got a bad feeling that this may fall over the UK (and knowing the luck of the Scots, it will land over here).

If it were to fall over the UK, what would it be like if it did hit a house? I would also like to know at what angle or direction is it going to come in or will land slightly horizontal rather than vertical.

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  • Location: Horsham, West sussex, 52m asl
  • Location: Horsham, West sussex, 52m asl

A sattelite is predicted crash somewhere on earth during the next 36 hours. Hopefully it won't be my house and hopefully it would end up destroying a home or killing someone.

Does anyone have any predictions on where this is going to fall.

on your house...

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

Do you not think you should rephrase that,

Wow.. that's a really bad but quite humorous typo. rofl.gifbiggrin.pngbiggrin.png

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  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire
  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701

Eek, right over the United Kingdom.

Well let's hope it strikes in the middle of Siberia or better yet the Atlantic/Pacific/Indian.

I can't get to that link.

Please can somebody tell me where exactly it is.

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

I can't get to that link.

Please can somebody tell me where exactly it is.

It's over the south pacific currently

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

Wow, that's totally different from the website I posted!

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  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire
  • Location: Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire

Wow, that's totally different from the website I posted!

If you refresh the page every few minutes you can see how fast it's moving. Funnily enough, it is predicted pass over Northern Ireland and Central Scotland.

What I'm most interested in is what angle will the objects becoming down. It probably won't come straight down through the roof!!!!

Is the projection of the UARS set to move (i.e the next time it arrives near us will it be further north/south). Also, how much will the 26 parts deviate from the actual satellite.

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  • Location: Stanwell(south side of Heathrow Ap)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, squally fronts, snow, frost, very mild if no snow or frost
  • Location: Stanwell(south side of Heathrow Ap)

Some of the tiny parts would slow down and end up a large distance from the big parts,

so a wide area to be concerned for

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

UARS is expected to pass over us soon before landing elsewhere.. and the risk area of the 26 pieces is expected to be up to 500 miles long.. so let's hope it's long gone from our area before it comes closer to earth.. remember it's moving fast so might end up in the south Pacific for all we know.

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  • Location: Stanwell(south side of Heathrow Ap)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, squally fronts, snow, frost, very mild if no snow or frost
  • Location: Stanwell(south side of Heathrow Ap)

moving fast..

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

Well what about poor old Lottie Williams?

Lottie Williams was struck on the shoulder by a piece of the Delta II rocket that weighed the same as a drinks can in Oklahoma in 1997. She was unharmed. Nasa claims the chances of any person's being hit by the UARS satellite as it falls to Earth today is just 1 in 3,200. Mathematically, that means the chances of you specifically being hit are less than 1 in 21 trillion. In comparison, the chance of you being struck by lightning is 1 in 60,000. Debris does fall to our planet from space all the time - nearly every day, in fact. Most of it ends up in the oceans that cover 75 per cent of the planet's surface.

But the UARS is the biggest Nasa craft to tumble out of control to Earth in 32 years. In 1979 burned pieces of Skylab were predicted to land in South Africa. Instead, they fell into the Indian Ocean and western Australia. No one was recorded as being hurt. But as it turns out, UARS may just be a dress rehearsal. In November, German satellite telescope Rosat is expected to plummet to Earth with in far bigger chunks - including a massive lens.

http://www.telegraph...ace-debris.html

Not another one coming!!!?help.gif

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl

She was unharmed, wow, so there's very little to worry about even if you do get struck by space junk!

And yup, another one, this time, it won't break up into many pieces like UARS.

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

She was unharmed, wow, so there's very little to worry about even if you do get struck by space junk!

Can she claim off someone?!

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  • Location: Huddersfield, 145m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Lots of snow, lots of hot sun
  • Location: Huddersfield, 145m ASL

Just to add a bit of perspective, the 1-3200 chance is that any debris will hit any inhabited area, not a 1-3200 chance that you or I will be hit. To illustrate, if we were talking a flat 1-3200 chance of you or I being hit that would mean that for every 3000 people within the danger zone one is going to be hit, so even in the UK we would be expecting 21,875 people to be hit..................

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