Category: space anomalies / comets, planets, other natural phenomenon

The german ROSAT satellite will be falling back to earth sometime over the next day or two at the most (the time now being 645pm CDT 10/22/2011).

here is a bit about the satellite, a picture, and an artists rendition of the craft— as you can see.. its a rather large craft —

http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosgof.html

 

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Here is the link to track the satellite directly:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=20638

 

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Below is a screenshot of the satellite tracking module on n2yo.com :

Here is a link to the video explanation I put on youtube:

 

this is a view from the SOHO LASCO C2:

 

 

Here are shots from the SOHO LASCO C3:

 

 

 

Search the dates 2011-09-29 through 2011-10-03

select the LASCO C2 or C3 camera …

here is the SOHO website:

http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater