Comments on: More space junk falling to Earth http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:33:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: fred http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80055 fred Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:13:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80055 Why don’t these people get together and open up a Space Junk Museum? Why don’t these people get together and open up a Space Junk Museum?

]]> By: Neo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80054 Neo Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:07:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80054 Pic when the object is brand new: http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/fall2006/images/08_01.jpg Pic of object used on the crashed Columbia Shuttle: http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040630/040630_spacesurvey_bcol_10a.jpg.standard.jpg Pic when the object is brand new:
http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/fall2006/images/08_01.jpg

Pic of object used on the crashed Columbia Shuttle:
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040630/040630_spacesurvey_bcol_10a.jpg.standard.jpg

]]> By: Kerrie Dougherty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80053 Kerrie Dougherty Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:48:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80053 Hi Tolls. Yes, the quote from me does sound a bit strange because, as reporters are wont to do, the guy who wrote the article mashed together different comments that I made when he interviewed me. In the first instance, I was talking about the fact that there have been a number of finds of space debris over the years in the western part of Queensland (in fact this one was the second one I'd heard about in the past five months). Then at another point, when I making some reference- I think it was to most space-junk falling into the oceans-I made a comment to the effect that, given the size of the Australian land mass one would expect that some pieces of space debris would fall on it, too. BTW, as far as I am aware, the identification of the piece as a helium bottle probably from a 1998 Atlas II launch was made by staff of the Centre for orbital and Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation and United Space Alliance, so it would seem to be pretty reliable. Hi Tolls. Yes, the quote from me does sound a bit strange because, as reporters are wont to do, the guy who wrote the article mashed together different comments that I made when he interviewed me. In the first instance, I was talking about the fact that there have been a number of finds of space debris over the years in the western part of Queensland (in fact this one was the second one I’d heard about in the past five months). Then at another point, when I making some reference- I think it was to most space-junk falling into the oceans-I made a comment to the effect that, given the size of the Australian land mass one would expect that some pieces of space debris would fall on it, too.

BTW, as far as I am aware, the identification of the piece as a helium bottle probably from a 1998 Atlas II launch was made by staff of the Centre for orbital and Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation and United Space Alliance, so it would seem to be pretty reliable.

]]> By: drbuzz0 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80052 drbuzz0 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:20:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80052 Yeah actually it's not space junk. It's fabricated and I put it there. I put it there to get Phil Plait's attention. I wanted to get his attention because I'm weird like that. He should probably be worried that someone went to all that trouble. I know I would be. Yeah actually it’s not space junk. It’s fabricated and I put it there. I put it there to get Phil Plait’s attention. I wanted to get his attention because I’m weird like that. He should probably be worried that someone went to all that trouble. I know I would be.

]]> By: pcarini http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80051 pcarini Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:59:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80051 That's three down, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Weuytp6DVY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">one more to go</a> hurry before the deadly neurotoxin gets you. (nudge and wink to has from the last space junk thread) That’s three down, one more to go hurry before the deadly neurotoxin gets you.

(nudge and wink to has from the last space junk thread)

]]> By: Michael Lonergan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80050 Michael Lonergan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:48:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80050 My mistake. It was obviously a godless ATHEIST satellite, as the FSM is the deity of choice for a new generation. Me bad.... My mistake. It was obviously a godless ATHEIST satellite, as the FSM is the deity of choice for a new generation. Me bad….

]]> By: Michael Lonergan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80049 Michael Lonergan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:40:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/03/27/more-space-junk-falling-to-earth/#comment-80049 Chris, That would be a first from what I know. (By rocket debris.) I found this quote funny, from the raccoon hunters in Oklahoma: "I have coon hunted for 35 years, and we are out at night all the time. I have seen a lot of things before, but we have never seen anything like this. I am just glad to find out other people have seen it," Morris said. So, they thought it was a plane crashing? I guess they were too busy hunting raccoons to report it? Chris,
That would be a first from what I know. (By rocket debris.)

I found this quote funny, from the raccoon hunters in Oklahoma:
“I have coon hunted for 35 years, and we are out at night all the time. I have seen a lot of things before, but we have never seen anything like this. I am just glad to find out other people have seen it,” Morris said.

So, they thought it was a plane crashing? I guess they were too busy hunting raccoons to report it?

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