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Chinese Rocket Core Live Stream Tracking (8:41 pm EDT)
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ChinaVoodoo
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I was waiting for you to do this.
ChinaVoodoo
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5 dollars on Auckland.
There are apparently about a dozen "live stream" tracking channels of this on Youtube. There is a lot of inconsistent info. Apparently, since the orbit is elliptical with respect to Earth's atmosphere, each approach to the low point (perigee) is an opportunity for it to get terminally snagged, and each perigee when that does not occur seems to reset the projected re-entry time.
Here are two more rabbit hole links.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bydJNGWJems
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29HGFep3Zek
I told my brother a week ago that it would land in the pasture in front of my porch. (But I chose Soup and Sandwich for the Kentucky Derby. I'm not so good at this stuff.)
Bob
Here are two more rabbit hole links.
I told my brother a week ago that it would land in the pasture in front of my porch. (But I chose Soup and Sandwich for the Kentucky Derby. I'm not so good at this stuff.)
Bob
11:17 pm EDT confirmed down. Don't know where yet. (Not here. Sigh.)
@SpaceTrackOrg
We believe the rocket went down in the Indian Ocean, but are waiting on official data...
Bob
@SpaceTrackOrg
We believe the rocket went down in the Indian Ocean, but are waiting on official data...
Bob
It turns out that all those "live tracking" streams were simply depicting the predicted path, rather than actually tracking anything. Bummer.
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ChinaVoodoo
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Lame. You mean we don't have personal access to satellites that track fast moving objects in space?
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Oldfella
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Well at least we are lucky that it landed in the Ocean and missed our baccy plots.
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Tobaccofieldsforever
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I had no idea there was a "Nature and Astronomy" section on here. Excellent!! I honestly did not know the term for the point where an object is closest to what it's orbiting around in an elliptical orbit is called a perigee and I have a BS in physics, so thanks for that! Is that term only used when referring to things elliptically revolving around earth? Also, on a side note, I was looking at some books I was interested in reading ,and I may read "Counterspell: The Second Law". Looks interesting.
In high school, I learned "apogee" and "perigee" from Walter Cronkite's news coverage of the budding space program.
en.wikipedia.org
The book you mentioned is volume 2. Volume 1 is Counterspell: Guardian of the Ruins; while volume 3 is mostly written, and not yet published.
Bob
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The book you mentioned is volume 2. Volume 1 is Counterspell: Guardian of the Ruins; while volume 3 is mostly written, and not yet published.
Bob
Sorry. I couldn't help myself. It's sort of on the topic of SpaceX.
Bob
MarcL
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You can always count on Chad to bring it straight.
Tobaccofieldsforever
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Miley Cyrus was on that episode too? I guess there will be no more chad skits...I wonder if that was pete's send off (I didn't watch the episode)
