Out-of-control Chinese space station will ‘crash into Earth over the Easter weekend’ with New York one of the areas most at risk from being hit
Chinese scientists lost control of the Tiangong-1 space station in 2016
The huge object will crash land on our planet between March 30 and April 2
Densely populated cities such as Barcelona, Beijing or Toronto could be hit
The rogue station is carrying the highly toxic chemical hydrazine
By HARRY PETTIT
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 March 2018
China’s out-of-control space station will crash into Earth this coming Easter weekend, according to the European Space Agency.
The agency’s Space Debris Office has said Tiangong-1 will hit somewhere across our planet’s northern hemisphere between March 30 and April 2.
Previous estimates suggested the rogue station, which is carrying highly toxic chemicals, would enter Earth’s orbit on April 3.
According to experts tracking the space station, it has the highest chance of crashing into cities along a narrow strip around latitudes of 43 degrees north and south.
This includes a number of highly populated cities including New York, Barcelona, Beijing, Chicago, Istanbul, Rome and Toronto.
The ESA said crash date estimates were ‘highly variable’ and that its experts would be offering revised forecasts every couple of days.
‘At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible,’ the agency’s Space Debris Office, based in Darmstadt, Germany, said in a statement.
‘This forecast was updated approximately weekly through to mid-March, and is now being updated every 1~2 days.’
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