{"id":4510,"date":"2011-09-19T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2011-09-19T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:01:58","slug":"odds-of-getting-hit-by-falling-satellite-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/odds-of-getting-hit-by-falling-satellite-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds Of Getting Hit By Falling Satellite Pretty Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4515\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-launched-by-shuttle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4515 \" title=\"uars-satellite launched by shuttle\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-launched-by-shuttle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-launched-by-shuttle.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-launched-by-shuttle-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duck!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to C-3P0, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. According to NASA, the odds of someone getting hit by a piece of falling satellite this week are slightly better, at 3,200 to 1. On approximately September 23, the <a href=\"http:\/\/uars.gsfc.nasa.gov\/www_root\/homepage\/uars-science.html\">Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)<\/a>, a dead six-ton satellite decommissioned in 2005, is expected to crash to Earth. Upon entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the satellite is expected by NASA scientists to break into 26 pieces (an oddly precise number for something falling from space) and crash on every continent except Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>That means your morning Cheerios could potentially be interrupted by a piece\u00a0 of space junk weighing up to 350 pounds landing in your lap. On the plus side, no one has ever been hit before by a piece of man-made space debris. However, someone always has to make the record books by being first.<\/p>\n<p>Given the lack of control over this situation, it&#8217;s easy to understand why Han said, &#8220;Never tell me the odds!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to C-3P0, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. According to NASA, the odds of someone getting hit by a piece of falling satellite this week are slightly better, at 3,200 to 1. On approximately September 23, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a dead six-ton satellite decommissioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,906],"tags":[1338,1337,1340,1339,428,1196,1336,177,1341,1342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}