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Space Junk to Enter Earth's Atmosphere

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    Bill Nye weighs in on dead NASA satellite

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In -- coverage of the huge piece of -- -- it's clearly gonna destroy the earth and the entire solar system within the next few days.

NASA officials now say they expect a six and a half ton satellite to reenter the atmosphere on Friday get scared.

Fox News has confirmed FEMA is getting ready in case a large chunk of this thing lands -- one of the fifty states they have -- in his reindeer.

They answered prayer answered all of -- ready to come out pick it up and save anybody who's hurt Superman is also on standby.

Officials say they still have no clue where part of it can come crashing down on earth but they argue -- -- -- -- hitting a populated area are very remote.

Our next guest says the satellite is basically a man made meteor.

And He says it's not just gonna drop like a rock.

It's gonna glide down with some style is any good space buffs would.

-- -- now bill Nye the science guys also the executive director of the Planetary Society which promotes space exploration Billiton and I it's great to see you again.

Tell me exactly how this bus size satellite is going to -- humans off the face of the year.

I'm sense -- -- -- irony I'll I don't know -- made.

And so now but it's a big thing six and a half times in this satellite is -- -- fight me from the good old days before we had.

International agreements about how to deal -- these things -- spared from 1991.

Button.

And -- -- runs out of fuel there has fuel to maneuver and keep pointed in the proper direction it was put there by the discovery space shuttle.

Back twenty years ago.

And then after runs out of fuel its its orbit starts to -- because even at that altitude 125.

Nautical miles or something.

It starts to.

Drag on the atmosphere and the sun.

Has been a little more active than it has been in other years and that makes the atmosphere actually get a little bigger usually happens is a little more drag but.

And so the thing is very irregularly shaped and so it's hard to say what's gonna do.

But built it He might might -- -- like glider but it also might all burn up on reentry and we'll all look like fools for even thinking about it right.

Well it might but you know metal burned -- remind everybody is sort of surprising thing but down in the middle of such a big chunk of stuff.

The metal may not.

Come bust may not burn up and so there will be a big chunk coming down now -- days.

You're required to take enough fuel.

On your satellite to.

To take it out of orbit -- and we at the Planetary Society as you may know advocate using a sale.

To cause drag to bring -- -- make sense to me Bill Nye the Science Guy pleasure thank you sir.

Thank you.

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