The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia at 2:24 a.m. EDT (6:24 a.m. GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Telegram.
My own plot of the final orbit, showing the Roskosmos estimate of the path between reentry and impact in purple. I guess that Kosmos-482 SA reentered somewhere along this track between India and the ocean south of Australia.
It doesn't look southwest enough to have hit R4. Looks like mostly S4, maybe extending a bit into S3 or R3.
In case anyone is curious, I used the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection.
C4, if the Pacific is always said to be huge then I feel it's a good place to pick
What if it lands in Greenland?
It can't. Kosmos 482's orbital inclination keeps it between 52 degrees north and south latitude, so it won't land near the polar regions.
The US will occupy Greenland to protect it from further russian spacecraft attacks.
Q1!
Ah, the "
Achievement get! Return to Sender" scenario.huh, I didn't notice there were two Q1s on the map.
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I have no idea how that happened. Thanks for pointing it out.
Edit: Fixed.
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V1, probably killing all the plants I'm trying to grow.
G1.
The first strike on DC from beyond the grave.
I'll take G2 and hope the US president's residential hellhole is wiped off the map.
D1, breaking in half to cleanly knock out out Kuiper and Starlink production near Seattle
v6 (totally not because i want it to happen)
You betcha. Mark me down for the return to sender though, please!
From https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/soviet-spacecraft-kosmos-482-crashes-back-to-earth-disappearing-into-indian-ocean-after-53-years-in-orbit
So my guess would be it hit R4 or S4, maybe?
(For clarity, my initial guess was V1 purely to spite me)
The Orbital Police Officer has spoken: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social
It doesn't look southwest enough to have hit R4. Looks like mostly S4, maybe extending a bit into S3 or R3.
@[email protected], I think you were closest!
Hope it lands on my head.
M1
R4
O2
H2
You always end up in Bermuda...
Has to be P3
Hmmm W2.
K3