Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today
Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today
A satellite weighing about as much as an adult male rhinoceros is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere today, but scientists don't know exactly when or where.
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."
Anything but metric
What's this weird obsession with measuring everything in anything but metric? How am I supposed to know how much a rhino weighs?
Had they said 1500 - 2500kg it would have been clear as day.
But on a positive note I now know how much a rhino weighs.
I was just thinking when I fo to the zoo they have posters saying how much a rhino weighs because how would anyone intuitively know that.
It's so stupid and also, is gat big for a satellite? I don't know.
That's it I'm giving you a 1/16th of an basketball
Ah, an adult rhino. A unit I work with on a daily basis and can easily comprehend, unlike arcane measurements of pounds or kilograms.
I assume we are talking about an unladen adult rhino... And why didn't they specify the time in some understandable increment, for instance, it will re-enter in the time it would take a normal human to devour 18 triple cheeseburgers from the Burger King in Schenectady NY?
I just can't imagine this impact... How many rhinos is the Earth and how many times faster than a cheetah will it be traveling??? Plus, really, how far even is space??? You could at least tell me how many CVS receipts or flea jumps away the satellite is.
How aren’t people getting it yet? The use of wild and obscure weight references is the new clickbait?
It's common in the US media.
What's that in bananas? 🍌
About 12:30 PM
At least 1
This is factually correct
Bananas are for scale, not mass. Gah! (lol)
Potassium, fiber, and banana flavoring.
Cavendish or Gros Michel?
Enough to be fairly radioactive.
Threeve
Thief steals 1/100th of an adult rhino's weight in bananas.
American adult? Or European adult?
How much is that in American football pitches?
You don't pitch in American football, you pass.
You kick footballs that's why it has foot in it
But how fast was the rhinoceros traveling?
The speed of five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
That's hotter than a Chevy Pinto!
as much as an adult rhino
Anything to keep from teaching Americans the metric system