Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Defunct Soviet reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth today (n2yo.com) 38 points by ColinWright 8 hours ago | 11 comments dTal 5 hours ago | link The site now has an infobox stating "It has been reported that COSMOS 1220 has reentered the atmospehere [sic]". No other reports that I can find, but this site[1] seems to have a lot of good info. Oddly, I get a completely different orbital inclination when I click on "To see where this object is expected to fall click here." (and, rather alarmingly, an impact site next to me) The main page and NORAD both agree however that it's currently still in orbit and currently somewhere around Cape Horn. It's hard to tell whether a particular map is using live data or extrapolating a stable trajectory. At this point I imagine there'd be a large discrepancy. [1] http://www.satview.org/decay.php...