Crashing of failed satellite Phobos-Grunt

[MickinMoulden]

I've been watching this closely. For those that don't know, here are some news articles: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A ... K77Ce7_OmY .
Woops. That was long. Anyway, it is headed your way, and is due to crash in the next few hours. The middle of the 3 day window is 1803hrs UTC, so very unpredictable. they say it will crash east of Latin America, but if they are wrong, will continue to cross West Africa and into Europe. You can read more on my Facebook page (link at bottom). Apparently it has already been sited in Europe with a yellow glow. It is the largest satellite to fall since the Russian Space Station. 2000kg with 11500kg of toxic rocket fuel that was meant to send it 76 million kilometers to Phobos, a moon of Mars, but failed to fire the rockets and has been slowly decending in orbit since it's lift-off on the 8th November, 2011. Most of it will burn up in a fire ball, however, parts were designed for re-entry and up to 200kg will make it to Earth. This is currently travelling at 27,500km/hr, or once around Earth every 87 minutes @ a very low 127.57km as of 1342hrs UTC. It's lowest point in it's oliptical orbit is when it crosses the equator going NE. Re-entry is expected to last around 30min (I think?), which is one third around the Earth. No doubt it will decelarate rapidly. Next crossing of the Equator will happen at 1636hrs UTC/GMT. It's 1:10 in the morning. I'm going to bed. Good luck.

[beeman]

Michael, you can get out from under the duvet now

It apparently crashed 120Km West of Chile or in Brazil.
It has definitely crashed somewhere

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Misc/Phob ... php#impact
I was watching the action on a couple of Twitter feeds. Very interesting.

[MickinMoulden]

Michael, you can get out from under the duvet now

It apparently crashed 120Km West of Chile or in Brazil.
It has definitely crashed somewhere

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Misc/Phob ... php#impact
I was watching the action on a couple of Twitter feeds. Very interesting.

Apparantly NOT! It's being tracked over Britain right now. I've read the link and it's misleading.

LOCAL TIME: 6:43:36
UTC: 21:13:36
LATITUDE: 46.34
LONGITUDE: -27.9
ALTITUDE [km]: 130.56
ALTITUDE [mi]: 81.13
SPEED [km/s]: 7.54
SPEED [mi/s]: 4.69
AZIMUTH: 336 NNW
ELEVATION: -70.8
RA: 2h 10m 38s
DEC: 29° 46' 18''

EDIT-Well it must of crashed, as all the papers are saying the same thing.
"According to information from mission control of the space forces, the fragments of Phobos Grunt should have fallen into the Pacific Ocean at 5.45pm GMT," space forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin told the Interfax news agency. - http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/ru ... 6244987466
But it's still being tracked as still being up there: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37872

2nd EDIT- Checked another tracking station that reports it's crashing. http://www.satflare.com/track.html?q=phobos#MAP

I would love to have seen footage!!!