The Powder Toy

ROSAT falls from the sky

  • EqualsThree     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    The reason why the satellite keeps changing the countries it pass by because the Earth rotates under it.
  • MasterMind555     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink

    cctvdude99:


    Germany (which would be kinda funny as it's a German satellite)

    Born in Germany, dead in Germany
  • Jackeea     14th Oct 2011 Banned 0 Permalink
    This post is hidden because the user is banned
  • desred3     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Yea, this is our future if we keep sending so many satelites to the space. All we'll see will be just space grabage, and things falling back every day. It's like here in the earth, all the crap we leave, we don't take it back... Bad things will happen for sure.
  • Dingolo     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    lol i thought it would be the apocalypse of "epic falling roast"nomnom
  • limelier     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @cctvdude99 (View Post)
    UK is Northen Europe.
    France is Eastern Europe, but kinda north-ish
    Germany is central Europe, still north-ish.

    image

    Omghax it's gonna fly over meh!
    That is, if it gets there in time, the earth does spin after all.
  • EqualsThree     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    ^
    Refresh the picture above to update.
  • cctvdude99     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Another map of positioning:
    image
  • jenn4     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    UK, northern? Where is finland then. image
  • cctvdude99     14th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @tudoreleuu (View Post)
    But it keeps flying over me - if you look on the map I posted, it will fly over me even closer on its next orbit...

    Edit: Actually, it might be further away... But on its previous orbit it was over the UK, so anywhere in Europe below the UK is a possibility.
You need to login before you can post replies