{"id":9004,"date":"2018-03-05T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:47:31","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-sometime-in-the-next-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/05\/the-sky-is-falling-sometime-in-the-next-few-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Is Falling Sometime In The Next Few Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/mar\/06\/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>China&#8217;s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Experts say it is impossible to plot where module will re-enter the atmosphere, but the chance is higher in parts of Europe, US, Australia and New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"tone-colour\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/bonnie-malkin\" rel=\"author\" data-link-name=\"auto tag link\">Bonnie Malkin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c7b3020ae55e2cd6ba06d7bba46f2fee0936c469\/124_18_1133_680\/master\/1133.jpg?w=460&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6c2b1e8362608f08c16846fad331b2f9\" width=\"480\" \/><em>The Tiangong-1 space station, which is expected to come crashing to earth within weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth within weeks, but scientists have not been able to predict where the 8.5-tonne module will hit.<\/p>\n<p>The US-funded <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospace.org\/cords\/reentry-predictions\/tiangong-1-reentry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Aerospace Corporation<\/a> estimates Tiangong-1 will re-enter the atmosphere during the first week of April, give or take a week. The European Space Agency says the module will come down <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rocketscience\/2018\/01\/12\/tiangong-1-reentry-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">between 24 March and 19 April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a> admitted it had lost control of Tiangong-1 and would be unable to perform a controlled re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Aerospace said there was \u201ca chance that a small amount of debris\u201d from the module will survive re-entry and hit the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/mar\/06\/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian China&#8217;s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks Experts say it is impossible to plot where module will re-enter the atmosphere, but the chance is higher in parts of Europe, US, Australia and New Zealand by\u00a0Bonnie Malkin The Tiangong-1 space station, which is expected to come crashing to earth within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}