European Space Agency: Falling Space Station To Hit Earth Sunday
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The European Space Agency says an out-of-control space station, Tiangong-1, will crash into Earth on Sunday, April 1.
On March 31, the agency released new tracking information.
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It says that the Chinese space station may enter the Earth's atmosphere around 7:25pm tonight. Experts say the spacecraft will burn up as it reenters the earth's atmosphere.
#Tiangong1 forecast for 1 April from ESA's Space Debris Office: the reentry window has stabilised and shrunk to the period from midnight 1 April to the early morning of 2 April (UTC time)
— ESA (@esa) April 1, 2018
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Debris is likely to fall from the sky, though scientists don't know for sure where that will happen.
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The nonprofit "Aerospace Corporation" says it may happen over the Pacific ocean.
The chance someone will be hit by space junk is one in a trillion.