Thread: German satellite could collide with Earth in late 2011
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Old 02-03-2011, 09:20   #6
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Re: German satellite could collide with Earth in late 2011
It won't "collide" at all

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"But our current estimates see a very low probability of the satellite colliding with the earth's surface," he told Deutsche Welle. "We calculated the probability of that happening as being 0.001 percent."
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