Earlier this month, astronomers in Arizona spotted an unidentified space object that will fall to Earth on November 13th. The object, appropriately dubbed WT1190F, is only a couple feet in diameter and not very dense. That means it's probably man-made â" likely a leftover piece of a rocket that remained in space instead of falling back down to Earth. The object orbits our planet every three weeks or so on a highly elliptical path that takes it out twice the distance from the Earth to the Moon. But eventually gravity will drag it down, and the object will burn up in the atmosphere somewhere over Sri Lanka.
RushCard, the pre-paid debit card company owned by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, said yesterday that it would compensate the tens of thousands of customers whose cards were inaccessible during a two-week-long outage. The issue first began on October 12th when the company tried to switch to a payment system with MasterCard and ran into a technical malfunction. RushCard executives say the issue was resolved last week , but some users may still be unable to withdraw cash or use their card to pay bills. The company previously said it would waive fees, like maintenance and transaction fees and ATM charges, for four months starting in November, but this new compensation effort goes one step further. Simmons said he has been compensating... Continue reading…
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