If you want to freak out your friends, find the day and time of the brightest ISS flyover or any other satellite. Then at the appointed time, let them know that you have a premonition of a streaking star in the sky at a certain location and time, and drag them outside to witness the powers of your psychic mind.
And by the way, on the 23rd - the predicted day of UARS' imminent demise, it WILL pass over the Pacific Northwest twice. Here's one of the tracks.
UPDATE NOTE: This track (above) changed since last entry, because it is a direct link to a server-generated image. If you pinpoint your coordinates on the website's map, you can find a list of flyovers over the next 10 days -- of course the UARS will cease to exist in just a couple of days.
Here's the current flyover schedule near Portland, subject to change as it enters the atmosphere.
UPDATE NOTE: This track (above) changed since last entry, because it is a direct link to a server-generated image. If you pinpoint your coordinates on the website's map, you can find a list of flyovers over the next 10 days -- of course the UARS will cease to exist in just a couple of days.
Here's the current flyover schedule near Portland, subject to change as it enters the atmosphere.
Date | Mag | Starts | Max. altitude | Ends | |||
Time | Alt. | Time | Alt. | Time | Alt. | ||
9/21 | 3.0 | 03:30:26 | 10n | 03:31:05 | 11nne | 03:31:44 | 10ne |
9/21 | -0.5 | 05:01:02 | 10wnw | 05:02:53 | 43sw | 05:04:43 | 10sse |
9/22 | -0.8 | 04:34:46 | 10wnw | 04:36:31 | 47sw | 04:38:17 | 10se |
9/22 | 0.6 | 21:56:11 | 10wnw | 21:57:42 | 32nw | 21:59:14 | 10nne |
You can either go here to the page dedicated to tracking the UARS' path, or you can stare at the image below.
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