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https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/04/ most of the debris will stay on orbit for several weeks to months: by half a year from now, most of it should be gone however, except for a few lingering pieces.

Probability is very low similar to the one in the below article.

Odds of hitting is 1 in 300 Trillion https://www.livescience.com/61955-chinese-space-station-reen...

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Aside: Any idea what that Latin motto is on this blog?

TOTUS VESTRI ARCANA NOCTI NOBIS EST

Google translate refused.

Don't know latin in any way shape or form. Just was curious and used this like a small puzzle. Added a bit more context to words that weren't very self explanatory.

    TOTUS - all/whole

    VESTRI - your

    ARCANA - secrets

    NOCTI - night? - 'used in formation of compound words' [0]

    NOBIS - us/we

    EST - to be - "can be translated as 'it is,' 'he/she is,' or simply 'is.' It is the third person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'" [1]

Sooo my guess would be something along the lines "All the secrets of the night belong to us?"

If someone knows any better I would love to be corrected.

[0] - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nocti- [1] - https://study.com/academy/answer/what-does-est-mean-in-latin...

[Edited with another mistake]

I suspect it uses the wrong case (declension) for some of those words and I'm not sure if arcana can be used as a noun--I've forgotten some of my Latin. My best guesses:

What was intended: "all the secrets of your night are ours"

It actually says something closer to: "all the secrets of your night are to us"

It should use noster, as opposed to nos (nobis in the dative case), if I understand the intended meaning correctly.

The reason I suspect wrong case is that nobis is in the dative case whereas I think it should be a nominative in order to agree with the subject (so "noster" in order to agree with totus).

All your bases are belong to us

Why are you linking to a completely unrelated article about the chances of a human being hit by debris from a Chinese space station falling out of orbit in this discussion?

The original article says it is hard to estimate the increased risk due to this incident but says one NASA official estimates an increased chance of the ISS needing to maneuver to avoid debris from 20% to 30%, although that estimate should really be given with an associated time period to be meaningful.

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