Satellite likely to hit Earth in unpopulated area

[Youbetternot]

Looks like a satellite is going to go bam on a unpopulated area on earth. Meh I guess that's one NASA satellite or spying thing down.

 

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says that one of its research satellites that ran out of fuel will most likely crash to Earth into the ocean or polar regions.

The agency said Sunday the crash is expected to occur between 1830 GMT Sunday and 0030 GMT on Monday (1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. EST).

It says "with a very high probability, a re-entry over Europe can be excluded."

Spokeswoman Jocelyne Landeau said the satellite, GOCE, will mostly disintegrate as it comes down and "we will have only a few pieces which could be 90 kilograms at the most."

ESA said Friday that humans are 250,000 times more likely to win the lottery than to get hit by the debris.

source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/11/10/satellite-hit-earth-unpopulated-area/3491109/

 

[ReillyP]

and suddenly #Siberia starts trending again.
Coughlasttimesomethingfellthroughtheskycough 

[Morpheus]

it's a research satellite, i don't think it's spying on us

[crazydog2580]

it's a research satellite, i don't think it's spying on us

yeah its just researching us....

[Hyydrah]

Not often that you see a non-sensationalist headline like that. 

 

A lot of people would have used "Satellite likely to hit Earth" just to garner more views.

[Youbetternot]

Not often that you see a non-sensationalist headline like that.

A lot of people would have used "Satellite likely to hit Earth" just to garner more views.

I don't need more views if two people view I am happy, I don't care of the quantity, but the fact that people are even clicking it

[hiyayhi]

Hmmm, Time for an expedition to secure the rubble! Probably a metric but tonne of gold in that thing!

[jbr]

Little late, it landed in the ocean hours ago

[Morpheus]

yeah its just researching us....

haha

[Ryan Leech]

Nvidia>AMD