REENTRY EQUAL TO ‘3 PICKUP TRUCKS LANDING ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD’
Ted Muelhaupt, Principal Director of the Center For Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (Cords) at The Aerospace Corporation tells Reuters there i
“It’s the size of well, think of an unloaded semi-truck. It’s about 30 meters long. It weighs about twenty-two metric tons. And that’s going to have a lot of material survive. About nine tons, we estimate, will survive. And of that, that’s kind of equivalent to dropping three pickup trucks on somebody’s head or crashing a small airplane.”
Not to worry too much though.
“Now, it won’t all come down in one piece… But most people, you’re going to be fine. You know, I usually use this as the like winning the lottery. The odds that you will win the lottery tonight are really low. I’ll bet my paycheck you will not win the lottery. I won’t make the bet that no one will win the lottery. That’s a different bet.”
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