In
what can perk up the morale of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as it prepares to jump
into the Lok Sabha fray, contributions to the party coffers dramatically
increased by 700% on Saturday, a day after Arvind Kejriwal quit as CM.
Reversing
the trend of slack growth, the party collected over Rs 27.78 lakh from 1,072
donors (at the time of filing this report) on Saturday — the highest in a
single day in February and the second highest this year after Rs 63 lakh on
January 23.
The
sudden boost is a far cry from the relatively modest collections by AAP between
February 7 and 13 that saw an average of just Rs 3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh a day. The
increase started from Friday after Kejriwal announced that he was resigning.
Till noon that day, the party had received less than Rs 1 lakh from 93 donors.
Suddenly online collections surged to Rs 11.74 lakh, thanks to 593 donors.
Earlier,
AAP had consistently registered high collections between January 1-3 when they
received Rs 41 lakh, Rs 49 lakh and Rs 42 lakh respectively when the party had
started a fund-raising campaign, seeking donations of Rs 2014 per person to
build a corpus for campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls. Over 2,000 people
bolstered the AAP coffers daily.
1 lakh,Rs 42 lakh respectively when the party had
started a fund-raising campaign, seeking donations of Rs 2014 per person to
build a corpus for campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls. Over 2,000 people
bolstered the AAP coffers daily.round tv
The
uncertainty surrounding its re-entry time means debris from Kosmos-1220 could
impact almost anywhere on earth, and Astronomy magazine editor David Eicher
told Fox News this could represent a genuine threat to populated areas.
"Much
of it will burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but no doubt fragments of Kosmos-1220
will reach Earth," Mr Eicher said.
"What
we have going for us is that most of the planet is covered with water, and highly
populated areas are in the minority of our planet's surface area. So it is
unlikely that satellite debris will cause injuries or major damage. Still, with
such a re-entry, we are playing the odds."
"This
is a very real danger, given that a decaying orbit will carry this satellite
down onto the planet," He added.
The
last high-profile satellite re-entry was when the European Space Agency's GOCE
unit - dubbed the "space Ferrari" because of its sleek and compact
design - came down without damage to property in November last year.
The
GOCE satellite weighed only one tonne, however - and had innovative ion drive
propulsion systems allowing agency officials to direct it down over the
uninhabited Southern Ocean.
The
probability of debris from Kosmos-1220 coming down on land is higher, but it is
still statistically unlikely anyone will be harmed.
Heiner
Klinkrad, head of the ESA's Space Debris Office, said at the time of GOCE's
descent: "In the 56 years of spaceflight, some 15,000 tonnes of man-made
space objects have re-entered the atmosphere without causing a single human
injury to date."
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