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Kill Shot...the shuttle grounding event was the GOCE, it's a done deal.Track Europe's falling, 2,000-pound satellite in real-time
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For what it's worth, our postulate is the GOCE satellite event concurrent with Taurids.
Our targeting stratagem in Spring of 2013 was to define the primary objective of the space vehicle in question. We had repeated returns of "mapping gravity."
This was several months prior to September 2013 and the news of GOCE running out of fuel with return to Earth in November 2013.
Other satellite / space vehicles of course cannot be ruled out (we've had plans to look at the primary objective of X37B but have simply run out of time).
In short, we're sticking with GOCE and the Taurids as the ensemble of data fitting the final observable event prior to commencement of Solar Expulsion Sequence (geoeffective).
DPRK (Sino/Russian alliance) utilizes the opening salvos of solar expulsion sequence as combat multiplier with resulting "nuke event" on Korean Peninsula occurring within parameters of solar sequence.
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Track Europe's falling, 2,000-pound satellite in real-time
[link to www.satview.org]
Published November 08, 2013
Sometime this weekend, the sky will actually be falling.
A defunct satellite from the European Space Agency the size of a Chevy Suburban is set to plunge to Earth somewhere between Sunday night and Monday afternoon -- and experts say there's no way to precisely determine where it will crash.
Its orbit goes over the poles, and as the planet rotates the satellite whizzes over nearly every point on Earth. But GOCE, or Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, ran out of gas last month and has been steadily sinking towards the Earth.
The satellite had been orbiting at a very low altitude for its mission, just 161 miles above the planet. Indeed, GOCE’s orbit is so low that it experiences drag from the outer edges of Earth's atmosphere, the ESA said.
Where is it now? Thanks to a neat widget built by the satellite-tracking website N2YO.com, you can watch the falling satellite as it courses through the heavens.
Pinpointing where and when hurtling space debris will strike is an imprecise science. To calculate the orbit, N2YO.com runs information from the U.S. Air Force Space Command through a series of algorithms, and overlays it on mapping data from Google.
"The satellite is one of the few satellites in a Polar Orbit. Consequently, it could land almost anywhere," Mark Hopkins, chair of the National Space Society's executive committee told FoxNews.com.
Not that citizens need to take cover. Although the satellite will break into pieces -- between 25 and 45 with the largest as big as 200 pounds, according to The New York Times -- they are most likely to plunge into the ocean.
... more at link
[link to www.foxnews.com]
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