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Chinese runaway space station will crash to Earth within months, expert warns | Fox News
Duck for cover! :lol:A Chinese space station will crash into Earth in a matter of months - and it could kill anyone who is standing beneath.
The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace”, satellite is now out of control and is doomed to plunge into the atmosphere, a top academic has warned.
“I expect it will come down a few months from now – late 2017 or early 2018,” Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard University astrophysicist, told The Guardian.