On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:18:46 -0500, J R wrote:

70 percent of Earth is covered with water.70 percent chance it will hit
the drink.
cuhulin

The odds don't dissuade people from buying Lotto tickets...

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:41:02 +0100, Hils wrote:

On 2011-09-23 15:29, dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:18:46 -0500, J R wrote:

70 percent of Earth is covered with water.70 percent chance it will
hit the drink.
cuhulin

The odds don't dissuade people from buying Lotto tickets...

Yesterday it looked as though at least some of it would come down in
Europe. Now the sun's quiet again and it has a few more hours of life.

It should be a sign of good luck to have space junk crash into your
village; Gods Must Be Crazy in titanium alloy.

I hope it doesn't hit Bognor Regis, (Booger Reegiz, I call it)
England.Ergo that is where that married Irish woman lives, wayyyyyyyyy
over yonder across the big pond.

Satellite junk/Space junk, what is the difference? Planet Earth is Made
of Space Junk.Junk Phone Home!

What time do they guesstimate that Satellite Junk will hit?
cuhulin

On 9/23/2011 11:21 AM, Hils wrote:
On 2011-09-23 18:17, J R wrote:
What time do they guesstimate that Satellite Junk will hit?

The latest guesstimate is between 0100 and 0400 UTC tomorrow, but
trending later.

That's 6 o'clock tonight here in Goonyville.

It will be in Flyover Territory, regardless.
I am fixin to click on the NASA tee vee channel, maybe they are sayin
sumpin about it.
cuhulin

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:12:03 -0500, J R wrote:

It will be in Flyover Territory, regardless. I am fixin to click on the
NASA tee vee channel, maybe they are sayin sumpin about it.
cuhulin

FYI, next time check UStream. They had 2 channels with UARS tracking
maps. NASA Select doesn't do news that ain't in a flight plan.

On 9/23/2011 6:00 PM, Hils wrote:

The latest estimate is 0400 to 0600 UTC and trending even later. There
was no sign of it when it went over here an hour ago. Seeing wasn't
especially good, but UARS is probably barely even warm yet.

Using Celestrak for the Keplerian elements and the 'Orbitron' tracking
program, you can see UARS track. The only problem may be that the orbit
is decaying so fast that the Keps cannot be updated often enough.

As I type this (2130 UTC), UARS now on an ascending pass in the southern
Pacific well off the coast of Chile, soon to be over Central America and
then Cuba.

On Sep 23, 4:35*pm, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 9/23/2011 6:00 PM, Hils wrote:

The latest estimate is 0400 to 0600 UTC and trending even later. There
was no sign of it when it went over here an hour ago. Seeing wasn't
especially good, but UARS is probably barely even warm yet.

Using Celestrak for the Keplerian elements and the 'Orbitron' tracking
program, you can see UARS track. The only problem may be that the orbit
is decaying so fast that the Keps cannot be updated often enough.

As I type this (2130 UTC), UARS now on an ascending pass in the southern
Pacific well off the coast of Chile, soon to be over Central America and
then Cuba.

UARS Satellite
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=21701
Re-entry was expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday,
Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight
Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT).

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:00:19 +0100, Hils wrote:

On 2011-09-23 22:23, dave wrote:
On 9/23/2011 11:21 AM, Hils wrote:
On 2011-09-23 18:17, J R wrote:
What time do they guesstimate that Satellite Junk will hit?

The latest guesstimate is between 0100 and 0400 UTC tomorrow, but
trending later.

That's 6 o'clock tonight here in Goonyville.

The latest estimate is 0400 to 0600 UTC and trending even later. There
was no sign of it when it went over here an hour ago. Seeing wasn't
especially good, but UARS is probably barely even warm yet.

How has HF been the last three days? The last time I listened, 18MHz was
open almost all night, and UARS was falling like a stock market index.

17m goes away here around sunset; 20m isn't much better. 40m was rocking
last night, but it was all RTTY dinosaurs.

On Sep 23, 12:50*pm, dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:41:02 +0100, Hils wrote:
On 2011-09-23 15:29, dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:18:46 -0500, J R wrote:

70 percent of Earth is covered with water.70 percent chance it will
hit the drink.
cuhulin

The odds don't dissuade people from buying Lotto tickets...

Yesterday it looked as though at least some of it would come down in
Europe. Now the sun's quiet again and it has a few more hours of life.

It should be a sign of good luck to have space junk crash into your
village; Gods Must Be Crazy in titanium alloy.

Are you aware WHAT is inside those fuel tanks ??? You must be totally
insane ...