I liked the news on Sky yesterday – especially the rather worrying news that a “Russian Spacecraft Could Crash Land on the M4 Corridor“. I don’t get too stressed by many things, but I have to say that this could be quite serious. Especially as the thing is about the size of a “minibus”. This presumably will come quite keen and is likely to make your eyes water if it hits you.

Where Phobos Grunt was meant to be - not near Slough?

But, in case you have friends or family in this corridor, than you might not need them to evacuate. Because the brilliantly named Phobos Grunt (sounds more like a Russian pop star than a space craft?) is going to hit earth somewhere between the M4 corridor and the Falkland Islands. Oh. So that’s quite big area.

Actually it is 7,866.01 miles between Slough and Port Stanley.

We can be reassured that the UK head of Space stuff is not worried – he thinks it will fall into the sea ‘sometime this weekend’. and presumably he lives up North.

I loved the part of the story where they also say that there are loads of objects falling to earth everyday – like spanners that astronauts drop? Surely they have string in space to tie the pesky little spanners down? How high tech are they?

Clearly if there is no blog tomorrow I have been hit by the spaceship as punishment for making fun of it. And if it hits Slough I will have to issue an apology. It should only cause a few quids worth of damage though – I have been there.

UPDATE – does debris falling 1,000km west of Chile put it somewhere near Slough? Thought not.