: A giant piece of a Chinese rocket is falling back to Earth. Should you be worried? #IndiaNEWS A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry

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A giant piece of a Chinese rocket is falling back to Earth. Should you be worried? #IndiaNEWS
A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that is space speak for “out of control???), and parts of it are expected to crash down to Earth over the next few weeks.If that is not worrying enough, it is impossible to predict exactly where the pieces that do not burn up in the atmosphere might land. Given the object’s orbit, the possible landing points are anywhere in a band of latitudes “a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand???. The debris is part of the Long March 5B rocket that recently successfully launched China’s first module for its proposed space station. The incident comes roughly a year after another similar Chinese rocket fell to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean but not before it reportedly left a trail of debris in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.At the time, experts noted this was one of the largest pieces of human-made debris ever to fall to Earth. We cannot say with certainty what fate awaits this latest piece of space junk.Litter from spaceAustralia already holds the record in the category of “who can be hit by the biggest piece of...Read more

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