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Want to know where that 2000 lb. satellite is?

The one that's supposed to fall to earth in the next 24 hours or so?

Click here...

LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING AND PREDICTIONS

...if it's headed over your house, maybe go outside and look for it... or hide in the basement.

Edit: looks like that link directs you to the path of the ISS, not the one that was coming in. I should have recognized that just based on the icon the site uses. Doh!

Well anyway, it's down now... if you're reading this, it missed you. :)

fun watching the altitude decrease every second...

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Originally Posted by Embraer (Post 7749231)

fun watching the altitude decrease every second...

Fun for you because you work in an underground bunker. :p

Actually, it looks like the altitude is increasing right now. Why's that?

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Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 7749275)

Fun for you because you work in an underground bunker. :p

Actually, it looks like the altitude is increasing right now. Why's that?

When I opened the link it was tracking the ISS.

I searched for GOCE and it said it was "decayed," but didn't show the trajectory.

I need to sleep, but that altitude is dropping pretty quick!

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Actually, it looks like the altitude is <i>increasing</i> right now. Why's that?</div>
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I searched for GOCE and it said it was "decayed," but didn't show the trajectory.

I noticed that too. :confused:

Here's another tracking site:
SATVIEW - Tracking Space Junk in real time

I thought it already fell a couple of hours ago?

KT

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Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 7749275)

Fun for you because you work in an underground bunker. :p

Actually, it looks like the altitude is increasing right now. Why's that?

Must still be in a semi-elliptical orbit (elliptical but decaying so an elliptical spiral). Altitude still rises but the appogee and perigee get smaller and smaller.

The other thing is that gravity is stronger or weaker in some places than others, which is what the satellite studied. This will cause the satellite to fall or rise from the nominal orbit as gravity "pulls" harder or weaker.

Hmmm. 5 hours ago?
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Radio silence: Europe's GOCE satellite falls to its fiery doom
Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News
5 hours ago

In an online update, ESA said that GOCE re-entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated around 7 p.m. ET Sunday (midnight GMT). That assessment was made on the basis of the satellite's descending orbital trajectory as well as the lack of radio contact with the spacecraft.

No sightings of the satellite's fiery re-entry were immediately reported.

ESA said the satellite came down during an orbital pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. More precise estimates of the fall zone, based on military radar readings and other observations, were expected within several hours. Experts on orbital debris said GOCE's plunge should have scattered about 500 pounds (250 kilograms) of debris over an area stretching hundreds of miles along the line of descent.

More: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/radio-silence-europes-goce-satellite-falls-its-fiery-doom-2D11575746