For one night only: Heidemarie "Toolbag" Piper's toolbag is visible tonight

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At least in Europe:

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For the first time in history, star-gazers will be able to catch a glimpse of a tool bag flying across Britain's night sky, after it was accidentally dropped by an astronaut during a space walk to repair the International Space Station.

But keen space watchers will need a telescope to see the bag, which will appear tonight as a speck in the sky, just ahead of the space station between 5.40 and 5.44pm.

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And on Youtube.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qB-tvEnVrU

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuueDThtDs

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@Walter Hinteler,

Talk about having your mistakes on show!!!

That's gonna be fun for folk with telescopes,

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@dlowan,

According to our media you should be able to watch it with simple binoculars - the space station is even visible to the naked eye ... if the sky isn't clouded like just now.

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We need a bunch of ion-drive nanobots to clean up LEO.

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a/t our news , we should be able to see the toolbag with binoculars - but it's likely going to be cloudy .
i've seen enough toolbags in my life without binoculars .
hbg

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