26 September 2011

Have YOU found it? By Nicolas, James, Antoine

Space junk...

A NASA satellite the size of a bus hit Earth last Friday, between 6pm and midnight. Experts had said that there was a 1-in-3,200 risk that the satellite would crash on human habitations...

The satellite could have crashed anywhere and scientists said that they could have announced the exact place only 20 minutes before impact. In the end, they did not...

The 6,2 tons satellite was most likely to have crashed somewhere between southern England and northern Italy, i.e. probably France!

Mark Matney, a scientist at NASA, said: "We know it is going to hit somewhere that covers most of the inhabited world, unfortunately..."

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