Satalite falls out of orbit:
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Topic: Satalite falls out of orbit:
Posted By: Enmity
Subject: Satalite falls out of orbit:
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:50pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/ap_on_go_ot/dead_satellite - May hit earth.
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Posted By: bishopisback
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:52pm
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I'm sure it will just land in the ocean seeing as how it takes up the majority of the earth's surface. ------------- 
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:56pm
| If it is actually "falling" out of orbit, where else would it land? |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 12:44am
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i hope it doesn't land anywhere near New York.
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 12:44am
Yeah, I thought that myself. ------------- 
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usafpilot07 wrote:Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:06am
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They weren't exactly meant to stay up there forever, I am sure someone at nasa will do a bunch of smart person stuff and zap it out of the sky or something.
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Posted By: Pezzer
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 6:20am
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Nothing will stay up there forever, even the moon is slowly getting closer to Earth. After March 2002 all telecommunications satellites with limited life spans were required to be able to transfer to a supersynchronous orbit at the end of their life span. This orbit is at least 235km higher than a geosynchronous, which is 35,786km. Those satellites will be up there for a while.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 6:29am
Yeah, that's totally the most likely scenario. |
Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 8:46am
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Target practice for teh jets.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 9:49am
Au contraire. There are about half a dozen places in NY that I'd LOVE for it to land on. |
Posted By: Bolt3
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 10:49am
Edit. I hope it lands on your face. ------------- <Removed sig for violation of Clause 4 of the New Sig Rules> |
Posted By: Pezzer
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 10:58am
Me too, I would love to have a satellite. ------------- Suck, sqeeze, bang, blow, and GO!
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:29pm
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Pezzer, I hope for your sake you act a bit different in person than you do online, but for some reason I don't see that as being so.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:50pm
Yeah, because it's absolutely not traveling at multiple times the speed of sound at a perpendicular angle to the missile's path.... By the time it enters the atmosphere and starts it's descent, a jet-fired AAM isn't going to be able to track it and hit the target before the target hits the ground. SAM would be more appropriate given the trajectory. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:53pm
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:56pm
Yes because everything said on the Internet should be taken seriously. Internet, serious business. -------------
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:02pm
| Somebody better call up Clint Eastwood and the rest of Project Daedalus. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:04pm
Given your track record..... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:40pm
Nah, I just like to piss you guys off. |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:59pm
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So you are a complete idiot on purpose? Thats intelligent...
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Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 3:00pm
Two words. Bowl Cut ------------- 
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 3:06pm
It is actually getting farther away from the earth. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 3:12pm
Yep, I was wrong. It gets about 4 cm farther away each year. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 4:49pm
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Hell, I wouldn't mind if it landed near my house. Thats one hell of a lawn ornament! ------------- 
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Posted By: scrumsguy
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 5:15pm
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Thats like that show I watched on discovery channel "Super Commet", it was pretty cool ------------- Help support the Youth In Asia! Member Of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 11:02pm
Anti satalite missile while its still in orbit? |
Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 28 January 2008 at 12:48am
| I'm sure our orbital mechanics professor will have something to say about it tomorrow. Hell, he's probably calculated where the thing will land. |
Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 28 January 2008 at 1:19pm
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