Being a space and science geek I’ve been following the story of this satellite’s upcoming plummet towards Earth. Where will it fall? Perhaps Siberia where KGB agents in Siberia will haul it through the tundra to a secret hanger and unlock U.S. secrets? (Wait never mind it’s 2008.) Maybe in a remote wilderness aside DB Cooper’s stash?

Here’s Wired’s story from Monday reassuring us that harm is slim, and then yesterday afternoon’s update from AF Gen. Gene Renuart, alerting us to a potential duck and cover day in the next few weeks…

I have to admit I do think it would be cool to be walking the dog and see a charred hunk of metal the size of a school bus crash in a field next to me and start smoldering. Straight out of a 1950 sci-fi movie.

I grabbed this photo from the blog SATTRACKCAM - an an amateur satellite tracking group based in Leiden, Netherlands. Check out their site to follow USA193 and for more cool space stuff.

Oh and heads up.