Telescope may hit Earth at high speed
3噸重望遠鏡沖向地球
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![An artist's impression of the ROSAT satellite, which is expected to plunge to Earth in the near future. [Agencies]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20111012/00114320def10fff303f02.jpg "An artist's impression of the ROSAT satellite, which is expected to plunge to Earth in the near future. [Agencies]")
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| An artist's impression of the ROSAT satellite, which is expected to plunge to Earth in the near future. [Agencies] |
| Earth has been told to brace for a possible satellite collision as an orbiting telescope weighing nearly three tons has spun out of control and is plummeting toward the earth, the Daily Mail reported. |
據英國《每日郵報》報道，科學家日前警告地球上的人們準備迎接一次太空人造物體可能對地球的沖撞：一座重約3噸的太空望遠鏡失去控制，正高速沖向地球。 |
| ROSAT, a German X-ray telescope built with British and American technology, has been orbiting the Earth since 1990 and has provided invaluable data on stars. But they lost contact with it in 1999. |
德國與英國和美國一起制造的ROSAT號X射線望遠鏡于1990年發射升空，在地球軌道上運行。它已經提供了很多很有價值的天體數據。然而，1999年時，科學家與這座望遠鏡失去了聯系。 |
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It is now predicted to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at the end of this month.
(China.org.cn October 12, 2011) |
預計它將在本月末穿越地球大氣層返回地球。 | |
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