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Oct. 21, 2011
Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth
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| This weekend, a defunct German satellite is scheduled to crash to Earth, just a month after a NASA satellite did the same. NASA orbital debris scientist Mark Matney and Phil Plait, author of the Bad Astronomy blog, discuss whether engineers on Earth have any say when--or where--objects fall. |
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Mark Matney
Orbital Debris Program Office
NASA Johnson Space Center
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Phil Plait
Astronomer
Author, "Bad Astronomy" blog for Discover Magazine
Boulder, Colorado
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