Sometime later tonight to early Monday morning, an 8.5 ton piece of Chinese space junk will reenter the atmosphere and crash to earth. The Tiangong 1 space station is expected to crash in a band 43 degrees north to 43 degrees south, meaning most of the U.S., China, Africa, South America and Australia are in the wide path. Scientists say that the reentry burn-up will destroy about 90% of the spacecraft, which would still leave 1,700 pounds of bad news coming down for a surprise landing.
Heads up!
UPDATE: Most of the surviving space junk landed in the Pacific, so you can resume your normal activities!
2 comments:
Fingers crossed for Mar-A-Largeass!
Unfortunately, the largest chunks fell in the Pacific. Maybe the next piece of space junk?
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