The above lump of metal is coming back to Earth.
The problem is they don't know where.
Odds are that nobody will be beaned by any remaining chunks of the nearly $750 million spacecraft, with NASA experts forecasting a remote 1-in-3,200 chance of a possible injury from the satellite's debris.
Here's Dave's link if you can understand it................
Had a look on the Heavens Above Website to see when its close, and it looks like we are OK but I will keep my old Spacelab hard hat handy! see
ReplyDeletehttp://www.heavens-above.com/AllPass1Sat.asp?satid=21701&Session=kebgfdhakfgfiifecmdmaoma
I presume Dave that it will totally burn up before reaching terra firma.
ReplyDeleteTx for the link.
Colin
ReplyDeleteSome of the denser bits will make it to the surface, but since much of the earth is ocean, and a lot of the land is unpopulated, on average nobody would notice, However when Spacelab crashed, some bits did fall on a town in the Australian outback who then sent NASA a bil for cleaning up which was never honoured I recall!