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Chinese rocket hitting Earth this weekend poses ‘pretty small’ risk to humans
The sky is falling but don’t panic!
A Chinese rocket orbiting uncontrolled and against best practice by other countries’ standards is expected to hit the Earth sometime between Saturday and Monday but the chance of it hurting someone is relatively slim, according to experts.
“The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small not negligible, it could happen but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny,” astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, of the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN this week about the roughly 100-foot tall and 22-ton Long March 5B rocket.
NASA is launching the Black Brant XII rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia Saturday evening. It may be visible from some U.S. states, including Indiana.