You have to wonder about NASA. They have all these tracking stations around the world, they get billions of dollars from the US taxpayer, but when it came to working out where the obsolete Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite would enter the atmosphere and (mainly) burn up, they didn’t have a clue. About all they were sure about was that it wouldn’t land on the good old US of A because God’s Country wasn’t under the track of the satellite.
In fact, the only way they knew that the UARS fell into the sea (probably) was that no one tried to sue them for being hit by debris. Not that there weren’t a lot of people trying to help them out. Including all the people who claimed they’d seen bits of satellite landing in areas which weren’t under its flight path!
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