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That's one reason chinese engineers can't control its entry. but ahead of the space debris office doesn't sound worried. >> to be injured by one of these fragments is extremely unlikely. my estimate is that the probability to be injured by one of these fragments is similar to the probability of being hit by lightning twice in the same year. >> did you know there was a space debris office? >> i thought that was the news from the entire piece. >> i think it is. the other news is, kids looking for easter eggs might find chunks of space degree instead. >> no, they won't. >> it's possible. >> you s...

That day a big piece comes down and we're all wiped off the face of the planet. >> we don't have to worry about space degree too much. spent boosters like this one and smaller pieces down to a grain of sand. what might be a bigger concern is on hall lean we'll have an asteroid come within a little bit more than a moon's distance from the earth. on a cosmic scale, that's pretty small. but it's kind of, again, it's kind of a karma thing. the dinosaurs were wiped out 300 million years ago. you can look at that two ways. we're either due or we've got a lot of time left. >> i don't know what the di...

>> how do they know that. >> there's some speculation it could be a spent third stage from one of the apollo moon missions that's been going around since lunar space for this many decades. because it's in a highly elliptical orbit. and so that's kind of what causes it to come in so sharply. >> the official name is wt, a bunch of numbers and then f. how did they come up with wtf. >> i think it's appropriately named. however, at the same time, you have to remember that there's a lot of space degree up there and this is just one piece. sflg are this is a kind of larger piece than normal. and so t...

>> ♪ i get knocked down i get back up again i get knocked down i get back up again ♪ >> seems like i just heard it on the radio yesterday. waking up to the song and today they will be supplying a supply module on the outside of the international space station using a robotic arm and they'll prepare for a space walk tomorrow. meantime, nasa keeping a close eye on some space degree that could come dangerously close to the space station. the duke and duchess of cambridge are back home in london after a 12-day tour of canada and the united states. william and kate left los angeles internationa...