China Space Station Crash: What Are the Odds a Piece Will Hit You?
https://www.space.com/40115-china-sp...is-strike.htmlThe crash is imminent: The Chinese experimental space station Tiangong-1 will fall uncontrolled to Earth on Sunday (April 1), give or take a day and a half.
With a weight of 9.4 tons (8.5 metric tons) at launch, which occurred in September 2011, the craft will be one of the heftiest chunks of space debris to re-enter our planet's atmosphere, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Does that mean you're in danger of being struck?
In two words? Not really.
"The odds of being hit are very small," Marco Langbroek, a consultant with the Space Security Center of the Royal Dutch Air Force and Leiden Observatory, told Space.com.