Friday, 8 November 2013

One-tonne satellite will fall back to Earth in an unknown location

People watch out for debris from this satellite falling from the skies when you are outside home.

A European satellite that mapped Earth's gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days.

Where and when it will crash no one knows. It could be almost anywhere on the globe. About 25 to 45 fragments of the one-ton spacecraft are expected to survive all the way to the surface, with the largest perhaps weighing 200 pounds.



For more info click on the link below:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11153623

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