Diamond: Huge Rocket Booster Is Set For Uncontrolled Reentry Following Chinese Space Station Launch, will smack earth May 8-10

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Nibby Ru.

Will it fall on the WH LOL?

If the sky is falling again I need a bag of this guys weed to get me through it.

It was supposed to come in tonight...one estimate was 7:30 any new news yet?

I had one too, mine had a target and said "Welcome Back Skylab!" Wore it to school and got in trouble, as usual.

hmm maybe

Bullshit.
I don't believe you.

I remember you.

It will burn up before it gets near the ground. Pretty show though.

I recall some prophecy I read on GLP about war breaking out after something like this falling to Earth. With world happenings right now, it would not surprise me.

Oooh! This is interesting!!

A winnebago hitting the ground at 126mph wouldn't do anything...

And, you're welcome

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except for whoever it hits.

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There ya go! Raining here too or I would go outside and watch for it.

The Skylab parties back then were great hilarity and ALL the fun! Bars and restaurants had drink and sandwich Skylab specials. I think my old helmet is in my storage unit.

:ohlook:

Not to be weird but I love your mom already.

Gonna hit Beijing?

Seconded.

Why is it that the Chinese always drop crap like this on our heads? Don't they know how to calculate re-entry or don't they just care?

maybe we can all think really hard.... DC DC DC DC

Thank you for this.

I'd prefer a text post any day of the week.

“Last time they launched a Long March 5B rocket they ended up with big long rods of metal flying through the sky and damaging several buildings in the Ivory Coast,” McDowell said.

“Most of it burned up, but there were these enormous pieces of metal that hit the ground. We are very lucky no one was hurt,” he added.


On Tuesday, the core was orbiting the globe about every 90 minutes at about 17,150 mph and an altitude of about 186 miles. Since the weekend, it has dropped by almost 50 miles.

Its path can be seen on orbit.ing-now.com.

Based on its current orbit, the rocket is orbiting as far north as the Big Apple, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.

It could make its re-entry at any point within this area, but since about 71 percent of the planet is covered with water, McDowell said the most likely outcome is that the debris will fall into the sea.

He added that some of the pieces that will likely survive re-entry would be the “equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles.”

It’s expected to return to Earth on May 10 — plus or minus two days.

Since 1990 nothing heavier than 10 tons has been deliberately left in orbit to re-enter uncontrolled. The Long March 5B core stage is believed to be about 21 tons, the Guardian reported.


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From Yesterday. Anybody speak astronomer?

https://twitter.com/_/status/1389245047829417991

Today

https://twitter.com/_/status/1389583391490723844

The lowest point of orbit is called the perigee and the highest point is the apogee. At it's lowest point that orbit it reached 165km and a high point of 326km above earth.

It's orbit is degrading fast and it's only going to get faster until it gets trapped and starts to disintegrate.

Thank you!