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Not to mention the N1 of a 757 which landed on a pig farm in (IIRC) Wokingham. First recorded time of the fan hitting the sh1t.:{
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Lomapaseo, being you're in Florida, how much of that 1000 mile circle is water? I might take that bet...

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If one takes a few moments to give a modicum of location data, one is rewarded with the current ground track of Tiangong-1. Here in Cincinnati, it seems as if the "Heavenly Palace" might fall on the "Beats the Hell Out of Living in the Gutter Retirement Home" in Ohio along about the time we are sitting down for a leg of lamb Easter feast! :sad:

Should you not hear from me in the next few days, would you kindly contact my attorney? :ouch:

Thank You in Advance! :D

- Ed :E

I anticipate that the reentry will occur shortly after one of the perigee points.
As it is, the difference between perigee and apogee are narrowing gradually as the increased drag during perigee takes away more energy than the drag at apogee.
At one one of these perigee points, there just won't be an apogee and it will spiral inward and reenter.

As I type... It has either just landed, or likely to be 23:26 GMT tonight...


https://www.space.com/40154-chinese-...rediction.html

Fallen Gong

Maybe if anyone airborne gets a good video they could post it as it’s due to start re-entry in the next few hours....

Looks like its going to be off the coast of Argentina. One more orbit and that'll be it...

Looks like there's plenty of life left in the old chop suey yet, still 150kms up and going like a house on fire.

The satellite-crash predictors seem to be as good as the met men...

Seems like Heavens Above is not so realtime; she's down in the South Pacific ocean.

JFSCC reports atmospheric reentry over the South Pacific at approximately 0016Z:

A report that the reentry was northwest of Tahiti (and in daylight it appears):

>It re-entered the atmosphere at 08:16 GMT on Monday, astronomer Jonathan McDowell tweeted.

Dick! as is now 0253 Monday.

Your own time isn't so good either, it's 0153 UTC/GMT, right?

You must be quoting a journalist. ;)

This is Dr. McDowell's actual tweet:

Missed us by.........that much! :E

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZvNcSFW0AAxBls.jpg

I've seen pictures of the re-entry taken from the ground-reported to be from South America. Report is that the space station bounced off the atmosphere and made it to the Atlantic.
If true, I guess it just loved to fly, and shows that you can't always trust official sources.:p

Come the Monday morning traffic there should be a whole bunch of flat tyres on the roads around Orlando, Fl.

That left hand pic looks odd machinbird. It looks like a fuel filled explosion, not a burning up due friction.

Agreed CS, I’ve seen a couple of debris re-entries and it looked nothing like either of those images.