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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retuom" data-source="post: 11003649" data-attributes="member: 98545">Updated 4.28pmNasa satellite[YOUTUBE]whsilLzzTps[/YOUTUBE]Updated 4.05pmNASA's dead satellite falls, starting over Pacific<img src="http://www.seattlepi.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1617828&width=628&height=471" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> NASA's  dead six-ton satellite fell to Earth early Saturday morning, starting  its fiery death plunge somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean.Details were still sketchy, but the <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22U.S.+Air+Force%22" target="_blank">U.S. Air Force</a>'s <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Joint+Space+Operations+Center%22" target="_blank">Joint Space Operations Center</a>  and NASA say that the bus-sized satellite first penetrated Earth's  atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. That doesn't necessarily  mean it all fell into the sea. NASA's calculations had predicted that  the former climate research satellite would fall over a 500-mile (800  kilometer) swath. The  two government agencies say the 35-foot (11-meter) satellite fell  sometime between 0123 GMT and 0509 GMT. NASA said it didn't know the  precise time or location yet. Some  26 pieces of the satellite — representing 1,200 pounds (550 kilograms)  of heavy metal — were expected to rain down somewhere. The biggest  surviving chunk should be no more than 300 pounds (135 kilograms) . The  Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is the biggest NASA spacecraft to  crash back to Earth, uncontrolled, since the Skylab space station and  the more than Pegasus 2 satellite, both in 1979. Russia's 135-ton Mir space station slammed through the atmosphere in 2001, but it was a controlled dive into the Pacific. Before  UARS fell, no one had ever been hit by falling space junk and NASA  expected that not to change. NASA put the chances that somebody  somewhere on Earth would get hurt at 1-in-3,200. But any one person's  odds of being struck were estimated at 1-in-22 trillion, given there are  7 billion people on the planet. <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/NASA-s-dead-satellite-falls-starting-over-Pacific-2186719.php" target="_blank">http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/NASA-s-dead-satellite-falls-starting-over-Pacific-2186719.php</a></blockquote>

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