Huge Piece Of Chinese Space Garbage Was Tracked Over NY and Hollywood Before Crashing – IOTW Report

Huge Piece Of Chinese Space Garbage Was Tracked Over NY and Hollywood Before Crashing

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A 19.6-ton (17,800 kilograms) Chinese rocket slammed into our planet today (May 11).

The bulky Long March 5B became the heaviest orbiting thing to fall uncontrolled to Earth in nearly three decades, according to Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist and orbital object tracker. The last time a heavier object had an uncontrolled entry was 1991, when the 43-ton (39,000 kg) Salyut-7 Soviet space station reentered the atmosphere over Argentina, McDowell wrote on Twitter. more

19 Comments on Huge Piece Of Chinese Space Garbage Was Tracked Over NY and Hollywood Before Crashing

  1. Since most space junk falls in the ocean, most people give it no thought. But, I was driving a destroyer through the South Pacific, standing on the port bridge wing, looking aft, when a huge space junk fireball went across our stern. Sounded like a near miss with a high speed freight train.

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  2. I’m old enough to remember when Skylab was falling, and falling and falling and everyone was loosing their collective minds.

    I suppose 43 tons falling from the sky would have been MSM news if there was an angle to blame Trump for it. The world we live in today.

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  3. Chinese seem to operate on the theme of “we build junk that will fail, and it’s your problem now.”
    China is the world’s litterbug, the world’s leaking septic tank, the world’s jerk-neighbor-next-door.
    If you elect to buy Chinese, it’s your fault.

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  4. …It was a COVID death, and would still orbit today if President Trump hadn’t relaxed the quarantine 2 early, so let us take a moment to mourn this innocent Chinese victim of Trumps racism by impeaching him immediately.

    …oh, and you’re all on lockdown until Hillary is president.

    …Deplorables…

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  5. Powered by the stationary bike from Gilligan’s Island and vacuum tubes. I guess the Chinamen didn’t steal ALL of the secrets. They should ask Ole Syph Clinton for at least part of the money back

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