Thursday, June 15, 2006
The International Space Station (ISS) would pass through South African skies this evening. The ISS, traveling at a speed of 500km per minute, takes just more than an hour to circle the entire globe.
It would be temporarily visible in our skies shortly after sunset today.
"The international space station has grown so big, that it's almost the size of two tennis courts. Tonight one would see a bright satellite, much brighter than stars, moving through our sky. This happens about once every few months and the one today at 6:24pm this evening is coming from the South Atlantic," says Werner Kirchhoff, a retired Gauteng astronomer.
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