Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Possibility of Not Being Hit by a Falling Space Satellite

The possibility of you, or anyone, being knocked out by a 348 lb. satellite fragment is 1 in 21,000,000,000,000 (21 trillion) to be exact. The space junk was splintered into 26 individual chunks. Is expected to fall through the Atmosphere on Friday, the 23rd.
"Potentially, you could get out of the way," says Richard Crowther, from the United Kingdom Space Agency(U.K.S.A). "If you want to avoid the risk of being hit completely, then you need to go beyond 57 degrees latitude north. That's Scotland, or Quebec, CA. You can also go south (meaning further south than the southern tip of Argentina).
If I were someone in this situation, I would take this advise a bit seriously. When you think about it, a satellite that's falling and noone knows where it is going to crash. That is a very worrying idea! If I were you, I'd get out of the way!