Tag: DEBRIS

Tuesday, we warned Earthlings of a 1,400-pound ammonia tank hurtling towards Earth from space, where an astronaut tossed it out of the International Space Station. Well, it turns out that we were a little late in our warning; NASA reported yesterday that the "space fridge" had already crashed to Earth three days prior to our report, the Daily Mail tells us. Officials announced that chunks of ...

Over the last few days, NASA officials have issued warnings that pieces of a 1,400 pound ammonia refrigeration unit will hurtle through the atmosphere and towards the earth's surface today, the Daily Mail reports. Although shards as heavy as 15 pounds could survive the fiercely hot temperatures of their journey, NASA officials insist there is "a very low likelihood that anybody will be ...

In what has become a highly publicized excuse to use some of their explosive toys, the U.S. Navy is planning to shoot a disabled spy satellite out of the starry skies tomorrow morning. Whether they'll even succeed in hitting the thing is a topic of debate, but assuming they do, there's the question of where the debris will land -- not to mention the potential toxic gas cloud created by the ...