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Duck and cover - it ain't rain

If you are enjoying your life as normal today, don't look up — maybe skip going outside altogether and just hole up in a basement — because Chicken Little was right about the sky.

OK, technically the sky itself isn't falling, but I'm sure you'll find no comfort in knowing that it's a dead NASA satellite the size of a school bus that's tumbling down from space.

Being dead and all, the satellite is sinking from orbit into Earth's atmosphere where it is expected to break into pieces, some of which will burn up during that transition. Some pieces, like the 300 pound ones, will most likely survive...

 

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