They probably got the same input that our media did. The
interesting thing is that nobody appears to have called in to
report what would have been a spectacular sight and sounds.
While it might be almost impossible to find the debris field on
the ground in sparsely-populated Northern Canada, the reentry
would have been visible for literally hundreds of miles.
When things burn up in our upper atmosphere, they start
ionizing and burning around 50 or 60 miles above the ground.
That is roughly the E layer of the ionosphere and radio signals
that reflect off that layer can be heard almost 1000 miles away
with distances of 600 to 800 miles being very common. If you had
a big piece of space junk at that altitude, people could see it
glowing brightly in an area 6 or 8-hundred miles around so it's
kind of hard to miss something like that, especially if it also
goes "boom!" and plows in to the ground.
That is what makes me think it hit the ocean. The
Pacific is so huge that it is one of the few places something
that big could happen and not be seen by anybody.
Both Canada and the United States have defense radars
and then there are civilian aviation radars that track aircraft
and weather systems so somebody should have seen something.
While this satellite only presented a danger if one
happened to be unlucky enough to have been standing under pieces
of falling junk, I am reminded of the Russian spy satellite that
did fall in to Northern Canada many years ago. That satellite
had what is called a nuclear thermopile as its power supply. This
is a container of a radio-active element such as strontium which
keeps itself red hot for years by all the atomic decay going on.
It's like a tiny atomic reactor and the generator is a series of
thermocouples similar to ones you might have in your water
heater or gas stove to signal that the pilot light has not gone
out. Each thermocouple generates some voltage when heated so a
whole pile of them, so to speak, makes enough current to run the
systems on the satellite.
These power plants are fine and dandy as long as they do
not fall back to Earth and break open, spewing their contents
everywhere.
The Russian satellite crashed in the tundra of Northern
Canada and splattered radio-active pieces everywhere.
Specially trained emergency workers flew a plane with a
detector on board and crisscrossed the area until they were able
to alert the ground crew where all the hot spots were so they
could remove them and make the area safe again.
"Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" writes:
> We were given news reports on Saturday morning that the biggest pieces of
> this thing fell into an unpopulated region of Canada. That may be
> speculation; but it's what our media reported.
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