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Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today (www.cbsnews.com)
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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."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's about a heavy car to a truck, that's way easier to visualize a car than a rhino even without using metric

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, agreed, but to be fair all of this is no longer criticism about why they didn't use the metric system and actually acknowledges that people need visualisation sometimes.