Huge Defunct Satellite to Plunge to Earth


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NASA: Pieces of falling satellite may be down

Miami (CNN) -- Pieces of a defunct satellite plummeting toward Earth may have come to rest, NASA said Saturday morning NASA says "it's possible" that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite "is down by now," according to the agency's Twitter page early Saturday. But the agency said it is seeking official confirmation with the United States Strategic Command.

About two dozen pieces of the satellite were expected to survive the crash through the Earth's atmosphere.

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I hope that, in the future, they'll send interceptors to destroy the remaining debris once they've descended to a proper altitude.

Some 26 pieces of the UARS satellite ? representing 1,200lbs of heavy metal ? are expected to rain down. The biggest surviving chunk should be no more than 300lbs.
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