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Gizmodo (26 January 2018)

1/27/2018

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Astronomers Say Giant Disco Ball in Space Is Bad for Science

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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.”

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-say-giant-disco-ball-in-space-sets-a-bad-pr-1822454265
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