NASA said on Friday that pieces of the defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, known as UARS, could land in the United States after all.
UARS has been inoperative for almost six years and has slowly been losing altitude due to Earth's gravity. NASA now predicts that re-entry will occur between late Friday and early Saturday morning.
"There is a low probability any debris that survives re-entry will land in the United States, but the possibility cannot be discounted because of this changing rate of descent," NASA said in a statement at 10:45 a.m. Eastern time. "It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 12 to 18 hours."
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