If You Live Near Seattle Look Skyward at 9:20pm PST

[rsmith6621]

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Washington-residents-could-get-view-of-falling-satellite-130473723.html


A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth is set to fly over Washington state Friday evening -- if it doesn't fall out of orbit sooner.

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to pass over Washington state at 9:20 p.m. PT -- on a path that will take it on a northeasterly course from the mouth of the Columbia River and south of Olympia to the Canadian border.

When it passes over, the satellite may be low enough that the atmosphere is heating it, making it brighter in the sky than it would normally appear.

The Seattle Time is reporting Washington State may get a chance to see it break up during reentry.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. watching in PDX too!

the boys and I are gonna hike up the street in a few (better view up there)

so cool

[KT2000]

2. Wow! - thanks

I will check it out!

[Jack Rabbit]

3. It's dropping on the wrong Washington

!!

[KT2000]

4. see anything?

I saw a falling star at about 9:10. That's about it for me.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. cloudy and foggy. Crap.

[Suich]

6. I didn't see the post until 9:40...rats!

I like watching the ISS fly over, when it's clear.

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

[pokerfan]

7. We were looking

We had the telemetry from heavens-above,com so we knew when and where to look from our location. Cameras set up and everything. We had clear skies but saw nothing. Now they're saying that it may have already been down.

[pokerfan]

8. turns out it was already down by 8:23 PDT

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