Comments on: UARS Update: Lookin’ Good, Australia! https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/ Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:15:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508239 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:15:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508239 Update#15 claims “somewhere in the Pacific Ocean”; unfortunately they don’t even state if it’s on the ascending or descending node. I guess we’ll have to wait a bit longer for news of the approximate crash site.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508238 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:55:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508238 By the way, just for laughs, our local news station advertized several times “we are tracking the satellite, details shortly”

When they finally got to the details, they provided information off the CORDS report from two hours earlier and gave totally wrong information.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508237 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:54:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508237 The “I think” part of my sentence was in reference to the fact that it may be hard to track the which line is which through the multiple juncture, not a reference to not getting the diagram. But thanks for the clarification anyway.

]]> By: Warren Focke https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508236 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:33:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/23/uars-update-lookin-good-austra/#comment-508236 “the eastern most yellow line coming from the messy bit where the orange circle is” is what happens if it’s just a few minutes late. The more-westerly yellow track is the next orbit, about an hour and a half later.

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