[Shardlake]

Heard someone who is clearly better with figures than me, talking about the 1 in 3000 odds of it hitting someone, yesterday. The 1 in 3000 thing was a bit misleading.

What was meant was 1 in 3000 of it hitting any person on earth. So you would have to multiply that 3000 by the total population of the earth which is nearly 7 billion.

3000
x
7 billion

I cant even work that out

As an individual you probably had more chance of winning the lottery 10 times over than that thing hitting you.

[Omah]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth at 12 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT), as Friday, Sept. 23, turned to Saturday, Sept. 24 on the United States east coast.

The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has determined the satellite entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east longitude (170.2 west longitude). This location is over a broad, remote ocean area in the Southern Hemisphere, far from any major land mass. The debris field is located between 300 miles and 800 miles downrange, or generally northeast of the re-entry point. NASA is not aware of any possible debris sightings from this geographic area.