The Sky is Falling

All over the news today, they were talking about the NASA satellite falling from space and about to enter the atmosphere tomorrow. It's supposedly the size of a school bus and could break up into a zillion pieces when it enters the atmosphere and showers down to earth. They still can't pin down where it will fall...but it's not north america...whew!

Mmm...to be hit by a piece of the satellite, I wonder what the odds are? The odds are small but how small.

There was a woman, Lottie Williams, who claimed she has been hit by a piece of space junk in the past. Imagine that!!

Heads up Lottie!
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/01/dayintech_0122

Not to worry, according to Mark Matney, a scientist in the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the odds that any of the 7 billion people on Earth will be struck by a piece of the soon-to-fall satellite is 1 in 3,200. "The odds that you will be hit … are 1 in several trillion," Matney said. "So, quite low for any particular person."

Good to know.....