BellaOnline Forums Education Astronomy OMG Here comes another one!

Soon ROSAT will hit the Earth somewhere or other. It seems that the German astronomical satellite will arrive sometime tomorrow (October 23) between 06:00 and 13:00 UT, which is 02:00 � 09:00 eastern USA daylight time.

You may be planning on sleeping through it all. But if not, you can follow it at ROSAT re-entry where they are tracking it.

I would sure feel better if they had a clue about where these things would come down! Oy!

It's down, but they're still not sure where. It seems to have arrived earlier than predicted - between 1:45 UTC and 2:15 UTC on Oct. 23, 2011 (8:45 - 9:15 EDT Oct. 22) It fell somewhere on this groundtrack which covers a good deal of Asia!

Well, you all know that it didn't fall anywhere near you! And that's good.

Since there were no sightings and no one has reported any debris, it's still a guess where ROSAT came down. The best estimate I can find is: maybe somewhere in northern Thailand.

The good bit of this is that when things fall out of the sky, they rarely do any damage and that has been minor. So don't worry too much!