{"id":4586,"date":"2009-02-16T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/16\/no-it-is-not-satellite-junk-fa\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:50:07","slug":"no-it-is-not-satellite-junk-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/no-it-is-not-satellite-junk-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"No, it is NOT satellite junk falling on Texas. Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot is <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/02\/15\/2241211\">reporting<\/a> that Satellite junk (from the recent collision) is falling on Texas, but he very <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/02\/15\/fireball-over-texas\/\">latest (as of moments ago) from Bad Astronomy <\/a>is that it is not.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>But then, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/product.php?site=JKL&#038;product=PNS&#038;issuedby=JKL\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT<br \/>\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY<br \/>\n1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;POSSIBLE SATELLITE DEBRIS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS RECEIVED CALLS THIS EVENING FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING POSSIBLE EXPLOSIONS AND&#8230;OR EARTHQUAKES ACROSS THE AREA. THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION HAS REPORTED TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THESE EVENTS ARE BEING CAUSED BY FALLING SATELLITE DEBRIS. THESE PIECES OF DEBRIS HAVE BEEN CAUSING SONIC BOOMS&#8230;RESULTING IN THE VIBRATIONS BEING FELT BY SOME<br \/>\nRESIDENTS&#8230;AS WELL AS FLASHES OF LIGHT ACROSS THE SKY. THE CLOUD OF DEBRIS IS LIKELY THE RESULT OF THE RECENT IN ORBIT COLLISION OF TWO SATELLITES ON TUESDAY&#8230;FEBRUARY 10TH WHEN KOSMOS 2251 CRASHED INTO IRIDIUM 33.<\/p>\n<p>$$<\/p>\n<p>RAY\/WJM\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot is reporting that Satellite junk (from the recent collision) is falling on Texas, but he very latest (as of moments ago) from Bad Astronomy is that it is not. UPDATE: But then, there&#8217;s this. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009 &#8230;POSSIBLE SATELLITE DEBRIS FALLING ACROSS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/no-it-is-not-satellite-junk-fa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No, it is NOT satellite junk falling on Texas. Yet.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1bY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}