Where the satellite fall out of control at NASA?

The UARS satellite is out of control, and NASA, which owns the probe, has warned that it expected to fall on Earth in the coming hours. The probability that the satellite, inoperative since 2005, fall on one person is only 1 in 3,200, the case is attracting a growing expectation bets on where to drop the engine is already happening in some countries, like Ireland.


On the other hand, an astronomer 'amateur' French managed to record images of the satellite in space on 15 September, when NASA flew an instrument of northern France. Thierry Legault, an engineer, used a camera specially designed for your telescope. The details of how he did the account on their website. The satellite was shot when he was at an altitude of 252 kilometers, according to Legault.


Specialists from a control center airspace of the Russian Space Forces announced that the fall of the fragments expected on Friday 23 September in the Indian Ocean. Specifically, the Russians claimed that the fragments fall in Papua New Guinea.


To fall into the sea?


"According to the data we have gathered this morning, the drop zone is located 90 miles northwest of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) in the Coral Sea. The estimated time is 00.05 am Moscow time (05.22 CET Spanish ), "said Alexei Zolotukhin, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.


Ireland is taking advantage of the satellite's flight zone, the bookies in this country have UARS included among the possibilities for the Irish try their luck and make predictions.


Potential sites where they could drop the remains of the satellites are located at a latitude ranging from 57 º N (Sitka, Alaska, Aberdeen) and 57 ° S (100 km south of the tip of South America), although it is a satellite out of control and can not really ensure that fall into this strip.


Low risk


The shuttle 'Discovery', now retired, in 1991 carried the six-ton ​​satellite designed to measure atmospheric changes and the effects of pollution, he made his way back to Earth for six years.


NASA scientists estimate that the satellite, six-ton ​​and a half, burn up as it enters the atmosphere but said that, although not all parts disintegrate, the odds that they can threaten a person is "extremely small" .


NASA explained that about 26 components, with a total weight of 532 pounds, could survive reentry into the atmosphere and impact on Earth.


Source: elmundo.es