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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=29493" target="_blank">Old spy satellite falling from orbit</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/16-world" target="_blank">World</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-26 13:06:23

[G-prime]

RUN CHICKEN LITTLE! RUN!

[camerontech]

This sounds exciting. Someone should capitalize on this opportunity and start taking in bets.

I got 20 bucks it'll hit an ocean, 50 bucks it will be in teh southern hemisphere. any takers?

[Brenda]

camerontech camerontech:

This sounds exciting. Someone should capitalize on this opportunity and start taking in bets.

I got 20 bucks it'll hit an ocean, 50 bucks it will be in teh southern hemisphere. any takers?

Of course it has the most chance to hit an ocean, but I go for Siberia

[Blue_Nose]

camerontech camerontech:

I got 20 bucks it'll hit an ocean, 50 bucks it will be in teh southern hemisphere. any takers?

I'll give you $50 if it lands in your backyard and you save me a piece.

[sasquatch2]

Just due to surface area....

3 to1 it hits water

1 to 1 it hit the Southern hemisphere.

It's likely in a polar orbit.

[camerontech]

Brenda Brenda:

camerontech camerontech:

This sounds exciting. Someone should capitalize on this opportunity and start taking in bets.

I got 20 bucks it'll hit an ocean, 50 bucks it will be in teh southern hemisphere. any takers?

Of course it has the most chance to hit an ocean, but I go for Siberia

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

camerontech camerontech:

I got 20 bucks it'll hit an ocean, 50 bucks it will be in the southern hemisphere. any takers?

I'll give you $50 if it lands in your backyard and you save me a piece.

It's a deal!

[dog77_1999]

I say it hits New York City, or some other highly populated areas..just like in all of the moives.

[ziggy]

Wasnt there one about 20 years ago that spread radioactive material from hay river to Baker lake?

[ShepherdsDog]

yup....it was Russian

[SprCForr]

It was longer ago. Cosmos 954 dropped in on 24 Jan 78.

[TattoodGirl]

You are all wrong...with the way my luck has been going...itll hit my fn car...

[ziggy]

SprCForr SprCForr:

It was longer ago. Cosmos 954 dropped in on 24 Jan 78.

I just read about it 3 weeks ago in "up here" mag. No wonder my fingernails are glowing.

[SprCForr]

Get my pm?

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

Cosmos 954 was a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT) with an onboard nuclear reactor. The satellite's reactor core failed to separate and boost into a nuclear-safe orbit, and instead remained onboard in an orbit that decayed until the satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere on January 24, 1978. The satellite crashed in the Northwest Territories, Canada, spreading its radioactive fuel on a 600-kilometre path from the Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake. In an attempt to recover radioactive material, a search was conducted covering a total of 124,000 km² (48,000 miles)

One has to wonder how many reactors are floating around in orbit......with rapidly decaying orbits.