Live Tracking of the failing UARS satellite

Pineedles · 09-21-2011, 05:10 PM

Slickcraft your computations are pretty accurate! NASA put out another release today.

Nicholas Johnson, the head of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office, has estimated that the chances that any of the UARS debris would hit anybody were 1 in 3,200 — which translates into a 1-in-20 trillion risk for any particular person (you, for example, unless you're living in, say, Finland ... in that case there's zero risk).

Don't worry SteveA, you can't believe everything that you read on the internet.

RG, It would be 100% if it were I.

SteveA · 09-21-2011, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Pineedles

Don't worry SteveA, you can't believe everything that you read on the internet.

Especially some of the stuff that SteveA guy posts!

dayvsea · 09-21-2011, 08:18 PM

Well if it lands on our camp, maybe I can soak Uncle Sam for taking down the Hurricane battered pines.. (save $1200 a piece!)

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09-21-2011, 05:10 PM	#1
Pineedles Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Moultonborough & CT Posts: 2,550 Thanks: 1,072 Thanked 672 Times in 369 Posts	Slickcraft your computations are pretty accurate! NASA put out another release today. Nicholas Johnson, the head of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office, has estimated that the chances that any of the UARS debris would hit anybody were 1 in 3,200 — which translates into a 1-in-20 trillion risk for any particular person (you, for example, unless you're living in, say, Finland ... in that case there's zero risk). Don't worry SteveA, you can't believe everything that you read on the internet. RG, It would be 100% if it were I.