Gizmodo (26 January 2018)

Astronomers Say Giant Disco Ball in Space Is Bad for Science

John C. Barentine, Director of Conservation with the International Dark-Sky Association, believes the impact of Humanity Star will be minimal.

“It orbits below the International Space Station—which already produces a very bright trail across the night sky, if humanity needed something to ponder—and will likely fall out of that orbit and back to the Earth within a few weeks,” Barentine told Gizmodo. “The odds that it will produce a glint, seen by a research telescope with a hopelessly small field of view, are exceedingly small.”

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