Concerned Australians

2001/01/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronautika

Last November the Russians announced the elimination of the Mir in February. And how? Just as any satellite or instrument that circulates through space is destroyed: Let it enter the Earth's atmosphere and the atmosphere itself destroy everything possible. What does not melt falls into the sea. The Mir will also not be completely eliminated and the waste will be taken to the sea. The problem is that the fall zone is 2,000 km east of the Australian coast, and Australians are concerned about whether the fragments fall in Australia. When at the beginning of the year the NASA gamma-ray observation Compton satellite sank into the Pacific, its fragments were dispersed within 1,500 km.