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Watch out, a dead satellite is falling back to Earth

There's a one in a billion chance it could hit somebody on the head. Europe's space agency doesn't know exactly when or where it will land.
The ERS-2 was launched in 1995 and retired in 2011. It's falling back to Earth this week.

Those who have irrational fears of rare but dangerous events should be on full alert on Wednesday: space junk is falling to Earth somewhere and there is an incredibly small chance it could hit someone.

It's coming down in the form of pieces of a dead European Space Agency satellite

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