'Splendid' fireball: China's Tiangong-1 space lab to hit Earth on Monday
by Agence France-Presse and Reuters from on (#3KMWH)
Wayward space station finally set to re-enter atmosphere, with debris landing anywhere between New Zealand and midwest US
A defunct Chinese space laboratory is set to become a "splendid" meteor shower as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere on Monday, Chinese authorities maintain.
Hitting speeds of over 26,000km an hour before disintegrating, the Tiangong-1 is expected to make an uncontrolled earthbound plunge on Monday Beijing time, China's Manned Space Agency said on Sunday - an estimate roughly in line with European Space Agency projections.
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