Satellite crash site a mystery

IT’S as big as a bus and weighs 6 tons, but officials probably will never be able to pinpoint exactly where a massive NASA satellite plummeted to Earth.

Satellite crash site a mystery

NASA space junk scientists believe that all — or nearly all — of the parts of their 20-year-old dead satellite safely plunged into the Pacific Ocean, likely missing land.

But if their estimates are off, by only five minutes or so, fiery pieces could have fallen on parts of northwestern North America.

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