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Where did the falling satellite land?
Has it landed and did it do any damage to anything or hurt any people?
6 Answers
- lithiumdeuterideLv 710 years ago
Across hundreds of miles, in a very large number of small pieces. It most likely landed in water, as about 2/3 of the planet's surface is covered in water.
- 10 years ago
No, it landed around Greenland, Iceland, and the Netherlands, and in the pacific ocean.
- theoregonartistLv 610 years ago
This is interesting, Nasa gave access to streaming data to a google app for this satellite. I watched it for about 4 hours minute by minute. I know quite a bit about how satellites act in orbits of various altitudes,...the lower an orbit?...the closer it is to land....the closer to land?...the faster it travels. When a satellite is further from land, it travels slower, this is all due to gravity....Gravity pulls on anything in orbit....Naturally as a satellite falls towards the earth,..the faster it flies...at least until it begins to hit the atmosphere at which point it begins to tumble and bounce. ( like a rock skipping off a pond's surface)...and it also begins to slow down as a result....Well Nasa's data was reporting all this data through the google app. It gave altitude, speed via Kilometers per second, and it's location by latitude and longitude....I watched it for 4 hours.....as it passed over Australia the altitude fell as I expected it would and the speed picked up and then as it exited Australia's landmass it picked up altitude quite a bit. and as it passed over and near Hawaii it dipped again and stayed fairly stable. Then it approached south of Alaska and west of Washington and Oregon and the altitude began to dip and gain, dip and gain, dip and gain, very fast..the speed also did the same. as it got to about 11:17pm on it's orbital pattern, it had already broken it's orbital frequency ( which is the actual pattern it is supposed to fly in normally) the 11:17pm point of flight put it just west of the coast of Washington, the 11:18 pm point is 60 seconds past 11:17pm at a supposed speed of 5 miles per second. so theres' a discrepancy of 5 miles per second times 60 seconds or 300 miles. That 300 miles puts the satellite right on the coast of Washignton. During that one minute time period when the altitude and speed began to vary, it was the only anomolly in the flight which was odd....in the 11:19 to 11:24 time stamp, the data kept coming in as it previously had and the altitude began to climb again (which is basically impossible for a falling satellite) I watched the data until it passed over Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean before I got a report that the satellite had been reported down at 11:23pm...I knew that the anomolly I had seen in the data begun at 11:17 and the down report was 11:23, that's a 5 minute window of possibility......which is a possibiliy of 1500 miles from 300 miles off the west coast of America Off Washington state into Canada....Any Report of it falling into the pacific ocean off California is just a simple lie. Too, there is some Canadian video footage of a meteor coming in during the time between 11:17 and 11:23pm.....So I'd say it fell in Canada.....I'm about 99,9% sure of it....at least some part of it fell there.....unless Google or Nasa admits that the Data they provided was false, then I'm right.
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- Anonymous10 years ago
we don't know the excact place.might have landed in the sea.
- Anonymous10 years ago
I was wondering the same thing, I bet it burned in the atmosphere