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Science Watch discarded NASA tank zip across your night sky | Watch discarded NASA tank zip across your night sky |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Over this one-year period, while the EAS has been circling on its own about the Earth, its orbit has been steadily decaying. It is now low enough in its orbit to be easily seen from Earth. Featured Whitepaper
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Science DiscussionsTo find out when you can see the EAS overhead in your local night sky, please go to the SpaceWeather.com’s Satellite Tracker. Photographs and a video of the piece of space junk can be found on the http://spaceweather.com/ website. Until it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere later this year or early in 2009, it will be visible in the night sky at particular spots on Earth. When it does re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA says that, because of its large size, a few small pieces may survive descent and fall to Earth’s surface. |
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