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Experts expect about 5 to 9 metric tons of rocket parts to rain down somewhere on Earth.
The rocket stage is circling much of the inhabited world, but it will most likely land in the ocean.
Sometime this weekend, somewhere on Earth, it s probably going to rain rocket parts.
That s because a 22.5-ton cylinder is hurtling around the planet uncontrolled, losing altitude with each lap. It s the body of China s Long March 5B rocket, which launched the first module of the country s new space station last week.
The rocket body is expected to fall to Earth sometime this weekend, most likely on Saturday. That s according to projections from the US Space Force, Russia s space agency, and the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research firm that receives US funding.