Yes, a Chinese space station is about to plummet to Earth. Here's why you don't need to freak out
by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times
Mar 26, 2018
4 minutes
Sometime between Thursday and the middle of next week, the Chinese space station known as Tiangong-1 is expected to fall out of the sky.
Most of the 18,740-pound space lab likely will burn up in the atmosphere, experts said.
But not all of it.
Between 10 percent and 40 percent of the station's mass probably will land somewhere on the planet.
As of now, nobody knows where.
Even predictions made 24 hours in advance about where the space station debris might wind up could be off by thousands of miles, said William Ailor, a researcher at the Center for Orbital and Reentry
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