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UARS Satellite Tracker, Sep. 2011: How To Track Space Junk
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by NowPublic Staff | September 21, 2011 at 01:36 pm
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What's Left of the UARS Satellite Will Hit Earth Sometime Around September 24, 2011 And People Are Interested in Tracking the Falling Space Junk. Here is How You Can Track The UARS Satellite Online
As you've likely heard, the UARS satellite is set to crash somewhere on earth on September 24, 2011. Just when and where the UARS satellite will crash is impossible to predict. Astronomers, however, are hard at work tracking the falling satellite.
Amateur astronomers are also interested in tracking the UARS satellite, perhaps in the hopes of seeing space junk crash to earth. One writer notes that the odds of actually witnessing the UARS satellite crash are extremely slim.
Still, armchair astronomers may track the falling space junk online.
There are a few UARS satellite trackers out there:
Not surprisingly, NASA provides satellite updates.
Fox News has also created a pretty good 2011 UARS satellite tracker. The Fox News satellite tracking widget gets its data from the U.S. Air Force Space Command and amalgamates it with Google mapping information.
You can also try this satellite tracker
There is also this UARS satellite tracker livestream
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at 00:17 on September 23rd, 2011
Chicken Little: "The Sk... Satellite is falling!!!"
at 03:15 on September 23rd, 2011
Servers too busy... Try again later... Seems the whole world is trying to track UARS it but technology can’t keep up!
at 07:02 on September 23rd, 2011
i think nasa is blocking it so people dont get crazy. but is ok for them not to say where is gonna land so they can save people if where to hit a city.
at 10:59 on September 23rd, 2011
Lucas, I think you are absolutely right!! I've been thinking the same thing since last night. How convenient that NASA's UARS tracking page is unavailable. They don't want to encite panic!!
at 09:42 on September 23rd, 2011
I think the odds of debris hitting someone is 1 in 3000 (approx) those odds sound great!But not when you think how many people live in america... or in the world!!So those odds are telling us, atleast one person in 3000 is going to get hit!?
at 16:28 on September 23rd, 2011
the 3000 to 1 odds, I think would be understood like this.in 3000 similar events such as satellite falling from space, 1 event will result in injury. NOT 1 out of 3000 people will be hit.
at 12:43 on September 23rd, 2011
Lucas, your a nut. NASA blocking a website...jeez.The whole world is pounding these servers, of course they are busy!Stop looking for conspiracies when the obvious is staring you right in the face!
at 12:49 on September 23rd, 2011
Tony I think your wrong, but it is confusing. It is one person in every 3000 events like this, not one person in every 3000 that would mean millions would be dead or injured and that isn't likely even if the whole thing hit a major city.The servers showing tracking must be getting pounded hard by traffic from all over teh world, this is NOT just an american news story, its a world event. So surprise, the servers are busy...lets be honest here, every time something important happens Twitter falls over, so why shouldn't these servers? (And the twitter effect is they fall over because the traffic is not constant, its increasing over time as more and more of the world connects to the net, so every major event needs more and more computing power to deal with it....just plain simple facts)
at 13:28 on September 23rd, 2011
track uars at
at 13:33 on September 23rd, 2011
track uars at www.infosatellites.com/uars-satellite-tracking-norad-21701.html works fine
at 13:33 on September 23rd, 2011
track uars at www.infosatellites.com/uars-satellite-tracking-norad-21701.html works fine
at 13:45 on September 23rd, 2011
IT WILL KILL US ALL.... TO THE BOMB SHELTERS NOW!!!
at 14:35 on September 23rd, 2011
Everyone is trying to track it because the US Gubbamint has no clue as to what is going to happen and where it will crash.
at 15:15 on September 23rd, 2011
Why not download one of tyhe free satelite trackers and track it yourself on your own computer. The nasa elements are freely available from here celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ Scroll down to "scientific satelites" then space and earth scienceLoad this science.txt file into your tracker. The elements are updated regularlyMike in Tasmania
at 19:36 on September 23rd, 2011
Yeah it's about to pass over us, we will be tracking.
at 20:24 on September 23rd, 2011
try www.n2yo.com/ works, good maps over land and times
at 00:32 on September 24th, 2011
hit me