space

May the Fourth be with you in your journey

On my deserved China trip I’ll observe
Conserve proverbial sensory nerve
Lob abnormal curve ball
Observe the fab Great Wall
Ponder breaking the Federal Reserve

Alan Grace
4 May 2018

Daily prompt: Observe

Bad [Fri]day*

[Why] [/] [where] will it hit? The Chinese are frantic
On [my] [/] [their] land, Pacific or Atlantic
Hydrazine
Worst we’ve seen
Can kill millions* [and] [will] mean[s] widespread panic

Alan Grace
30 March 2018

* poetic license? Now expected to land today (Monday NZ time 2 April).

[letters in brackets optional- which version do you like best?]

Update:

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/techandscience/chinese-space-station-crashes-to-earth-over-the-south-pacific-chinese-state-media-says/ar-AAvm2Ck?ocid=spartanntp

The name “Tiangong” may sound familiar as it was the space station Sandra Bullock attached to in the sci-fi film Gravity.

Chinese Tiangong-1 space station could crash into Europe on April 1 with ‘toxic’ chemical on board – but scientists don’t know where it’ll hit.

Hydrazine is a highly corrosive and toxic chemical compound used as a thruster propellant in spacecraft and it now could be set loose on Earth.

Daily prompt:

Frantic

Toxic

See:

http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=37820#TOP

https://www.space.com/32054-satellite-tracker.html

https://www.cnet.com/news/where-chinese-tiangong-1-space-station-could-crash-april-1/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17175864/china-space-station-tiangong-1-space-debris-track-fall

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5359251/china-space-station-crash-tiangong-when-where/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/902485/chinese-space-station-crash-tiangong-1-danger-toxic-material

https://www.livescience.com/62112-what-if-you-find-china-space-station-debris.html

http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, short-term exposure to hydrazine leads to seizures, coma, pulmonary edema as well as itchy airways, eyes and nose. Long-term exposures have been linked to the development of cancer in humans.

The out-of-control spacecraft launched back in 2011, but has since lost connection with China’s space agency and is now falling out of orbit.
Experts currently predict that the space station will fall somewhere over Europe, and could even hit land.
“Re-entry will take place anywhere between 43ºN and 43ºS (e.g. Spain, France, Portugal, Greece, etc.),” said the the European Space Agency (ESA).
The ESA adds that it will never be able go give a “precise time/location prediction” for the crash, but says that areas outside of the above latitudes “can be excluded”.
After initially drawing up an impact timeline of a few weeks, scientists have managed to narrow that window down further.
April 1, plus or minus a day, is the new potential date of re-entry – with predictions made easier by the station continually dropping lower in its orbit.

Tiangong-1 space station crash window gets narrowed down
China’s first space station is about to return to Earth, and satellite watchers have begun to zero in on where and when will crash and burn.

The “Heavenly Palace” will fall from the heavens at around 3:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday, April Fools’ Day, give or take about 16 hours.
Or it could be the evening before, plus or minus 14 hours.
Of course, by now you probably know the re-entry of the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 (Tiangong means heavenly palace in English) is no prank, despite all the uncertainty around the time and place of its crash landing. The 9-ton spacecraft is widely believed to be out of control and on a collision course with Earth’s atmosphere.

 

Humanity Star XIII

Say no oh the pity of it Iago*
Beck’s best rocket test conveys crap shit cargo
Foreign disco ball turd
From space fallout absurd
Geometric decaying orbit aglow

Alan Grace
24 March 2018

*See: Othello Act 4, Scene 1, Page 10

Daily prompt:
Foreign

See:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17144208/rocket-lab-humanity-star-satellite-new-zealand-astronomy

https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/18094-rocket-lab-humanity-star-incinerated-fell-back-earth-ahead-schedule

Fall from grace

Humanity Star trash can talisman
Man’s attention span less than felled lifespan
Today time can tell
Clue near where you fell
[Ban] [Brand] Beck a true space race Renaissance man

Alan Grace
23 March 2018

What should the first word be on the last line?

Daily prompt: Talisman

See:
http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/humanity-star-satellite-orbit-degrades-intl-style/index.html
http://www.thehumanitystar.com/

The space junk HUMANITY STAR is forecast to make re-entry Thursday, 22 Mar 2018 at 13:08 UTC +/-

 

 

Humanity Star falls

Falling small Star may be invisible
Great O* Disco Ball way still risible
Friday G O D B
Will become history
Appalling ball always nil visible

Alan Grace
22 March 201

* Orbiting (not for long). See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/humanity-star-x/

Daily prompt: Invisible