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Satellites in collision ! !

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Wed, 2020-01-29 21:55
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jack martin
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Satellites in collision ! !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51299638

Regards,

Jack

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Wed, 2020-01-29 22:24
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That would be a sad end for

That would be a sad end for IRAS (famous for the discovery of C/1983 H1 Iras-Araki-Alcock). The predicted time of close approach is 23:39:35 UTC tonight according to LeoLabs.

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Wed, 2020-01-29 23:51
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no head on crash

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1222667505505722369

looks like they missed or at least no head on crash !

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