How to follow along as China’s derelict space station falls to Earth this weekend

This weekend, a derelict Chinese space station will plummet to Earth.

While the station — named Tiangong-1 — will mostly burn up in the atmosphere when it falls to the planet, some relatively small pieces of that spacecraft may make it all the way to Earth’s surface.

However, we don’t know where those bits of orbital junk might land. Chances are, though, that it won’t be on top of your head.

In all likelihood, the bits of space debris won’t fall in any populated areas — the chance of being hit by a piece of space debris are less than 1 in 300 trillion — but we still don’t know exactly when and where Tiangong-1 will come down.  Read more…

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