So this is the first time in a long time that Nasa has dropped an object from the sky in an uncontrolled manner. It's a 6 ton satellite that was launched from shuttle Discovery in 1991.
It's falling orbit is very erratic - due most recently to the solar activity of the last few days, but even now its speed and course are not as predictable as they'd prefer.
There's a slim chance it'll fall over the US, and if so it'll make quite a bright shooting star as 90% of it burns up.
Right now it's most likely to enter the atmosphere at 10:15PM EDT, possibly falling up to 5 hours earlier or 5 hours later - which means it's falling sometime in the next 10 hours.
Happy stargazing, and watch out for falling pieces of satellite.
#2
GasBandit
Battlefield Bad Company 2 level. heh.
#3
DarkAudit
#4
ThatNickGuy
#5
strawman
Looks like it'll come down in the next 45 minutes or so. Probably over the indian ocean or australia.
#6
Frankie Williamson
Someone should make a compilation of every single local news channel in the states' warnings about how you might be in danger. Tonight I heard Spokane and Chicago both play teasers of stories talking about how NASA warns that it could be coming down in their state.
#7
strawman
Really? That's crazy. Glad I don't watch TV much. It re-entered over the pacific, and some debris is likely to have fallen in Canada.
#8
North_Ranger
Last I heard the bugger oughta hit somewhere in northern Italy.
