Space!

[globaleagle]

Don't look up!

carry an umbrella..!

 

[Seagles68]

carry an umbrella..!

Aren't you afraid of umbrellas?

 

[The '47ers]

That five-decade stay in space could come to an end today. Kosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere and possibly crash somewhere on the surface of the planet.

Phew, I'm glad they narrowed it down to "somewhere on the surface of the planet"!

 

[Brookie1973]

Phew, I'm glad they narrowed it down to "somewhere on the surface of the planet"!

“Possibly”. I guess that means it could miss.

 

[globaleagle]

Nerds!

Reentry prediction Soviet-era Venera Venus lander (Cosmos-482 descent craft) – Rocket Science

News from the edge of gravity

blogs.esa.int

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

"The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is about 65 000 times more likely to be struck by lightning."

Still, a 495kg lander... the chances of a human surviving that landing on you would be far less than 1 in 100 billion!
(Be funny if it landed on Putin though!)

 

[globaleagle]

"The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is about 65 000 times more likely to be struck by lightning."

Still, a 495kg lander... the chances of a human surviving that landing on you would be far less than 1 in 100 billion!
(Be funny if it landed on Putin though!)

This lander (as stated) was designed to withstand something like 300g's, etc. So there's a good chance it'll be impacting land/sea.

Cruising around since the '50's though. Sounds like some ST'ers. lol

 

[Bearfax]

The Sky is falling. The Sky is falling.

 

[globaleagle]

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson - NASA

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft took this image of the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson during its flyby on April 20, 2025, showing the elongated contact binary (an

www.nasa.gov

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Donaldjohanson Flyby

The Lucy operations team has confirmed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft phoned home after its encounter with the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. The spacecraft’s closest approach to the asteroid occurred at 1:51 pm EDT on Sunday.
Initial information indicates that the spacecraft is in good health. The team has commanded the spacecraft to start sending the data collected during the encounter back to Earth, a process that will take up to a week.
The team will analyze the data to better understand the relatively young asteroid and to ensure that the spacecraft and team are well prepared to observe the mission’s main targets: the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, beginning in 2027.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Wow. Far from home.
Go Lucy!

(Asteroid Donaldjohanson was named after Donald Johanson. Who'd have thought!)

 

[Bearfax]

The rich guys though are waiting for a peak at Psyche, an asteroid believed to have been initially part of a much larger body which seems to have disintegrated and left the core of that body naked. That core is chock full of metals to dream of, far more than any other asteroid yet spotted. Yum yum says Musk

 

[The '47ers]

"The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote. The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is about 65 000 times more likely to be struck by lightning."

Still, a 495kg lander... the chances of a human surviving that landing on you would be far less than 1 in 100 billion!
(Be funny if it landed on Putin though!)

I see Winnie the Pooh is over there at the moment, two birds, one satellite?

 

[globaleagle]

This is the latest available ‘ground track’. At the current predicted time of reentry, the capsule would be located approximately 10 km over the red marker, labelled COIW (centre of impact window). It is here that we currently expect the satellite to break up, but there is still a high uncertainty in the precise location where it will fall.

Look out W.A.!!!!!!!!

 

[globaleagle]

Status 10 May 09:56 CEST

As the descent craft was not spotted by radar over Germany at the expected 07:32 UTC / 09:32 CEST pass, it is most likely that the reentry has already occurred.

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

Kosmos 482 has come home.

www.space.com

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Probably killed some unlucky whale that was minding its own business!

 

[Cliffy's Jockstrap]

Is it wrong that I quietly thought it would be rather funny if the thing crashed onto the new HQ of the Bad Luck Bears?

 

[globaleagle]

Probably killed some unlucky whale that was minding its own business!

Should stop going around eating people called Jonah!

 

[wedgetail eagle]

Imagine filling out an insurance claim.

“ we ask a range of questions to determine whether the event is covered by the policy….”
🤔🤔

 

[manlyfan76]

 

[Bearfax]

Great galaxies! Who's been pin pricking the velvet sheet up there in the sky again. Or are they just lots of camp fires of the ancestors gone to the spirit world