Dying Satellite to Get Shot Down by US Naval Missile

Earlier I reported on the probability of a dying satellite crashing down over North America with some reminant material having a ground impact. Today's announcement by the Pentagon to use a Navy missile to shoot down and destroy the satellite in the coming days before it enters the atmosphere is probably the best option available, given the fact there is evidently sensitive high security classified equipment and material that the US Defense Department does not want to risk ending up in the hands of anyone that are not absolutely friendly to the US government. Now we don't have to concern ourselves with looking up when that day would have come in early March.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-02-14-broken-satellite-shot-down_N.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-DeadSatellite.html?hp

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