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Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/science

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A satellite will likely make an uncontrolled return through Earth's atmosphere today, according to the latest estimates from the European Space Agency.

It says ERS-2, which weighs about as much as an adult male rhinoceros, is expected to re-enter at about 11:32 a.m. EST — plus or minus 4.6 hours. The agency can't predict exactly when and where the satellite will re-enter because its return is "natural."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How aren’t people getting it yet? The use of wild and obscure weight references is the new clickbait?

[–] YoorWeb 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's common in the US media.

[–] Hawke 1 points 1 month ago

This isn’t even clickbait, this is basically satire.