Desktop Project Part 23: What are the odds of a satellite re-entering over water?

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Apr 17, 2012 11:00 PMNov 20, 2019 12:06 AM

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[I'm approaching the Desktop Project endgame here; I'm almost out of pictures to post. I've done this every day for weeks, and my computer desktop is almost clean! Of course, more stuff keeps coming in, so I could do this forever. But that would be cheating. Sweet, sweet cheating.] I've got something different for you today. Over the past few weeks I've posted an illustration, and a couple of dozen pictures, but no graphs! That'll change now, and I think this particular set of plots is nifty.

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