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October 18, 2011 By Jessica Mulholland
Remember about a month ago when the 6.5-ton Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth? Well it’s happening again.
This time, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) expects that the approximately 2.6-ton German Roentgen satellite (ROSAT) -- an X-ray observatory launched in 1990 to perform an all-sky survey of X-ray sources -- will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere sometime between October 21 and October 24.
The DLR also anticipates a “dangerous” re-entry, saying that 30 individual pieces weighing a total of 1.7 tons could reach the Earth’s surface at more than 17,000 miles per hour.
Image courtesy of the German Aerospace Center.
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it cracks me up that the Photo of the Week is rendered the size of a postage stamp. Maybe if I click on it, it will expand.... nope.
Wow, you're right. You can't click to expand. "Photo of the Week" would be better if we could actually see it. I'd also like a link to the site that gives tracking info on this event. I'd like to know when they have an estimated trajectory. ;-)
I like http://www.spaceweather.com/ for satelite and asteroid tracking plus a whole lot more.
copy and past into another clean email message..the photo is much bigger
There was a bit of a glitch in the back-end that has now been fixed. Thanks for your comment notifying us of the problem!
Is that really a photograph?
Ya know, an interesting angle to the story could have been what happens if you or someone you know is struck and injured/killed by said 17,000 mph man made debris...it's obviously not an 'act of God.' Or, if it lands in my backyard, do I get to keep it?