Incoming! rosat due to burn in with in months

Hey, bummin you didn't get smacked by a chunk of GOES? Good news for you then. From the Boing Boing blog:

• ROSAT will probably have more pieces survive the ride down because its mirrors had to be shielded from heat to operate. That means the odds of it hitting someone will be slightly higher than from UARS, about 1 in 2000. Bear in mind that’s still really small odds! The chance of a specific individual getting hit are still something like only 1 in 14 trillion.

Compared to GOES, the ROSAT is a lightweight at only roughly 2 tons, but hey, you have to start somewhere.

It will be a couple of months until we know for sure the wheres and whens so keep looking up...