UARS Satellite Falling To Earth

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) the size of a small bus, weighs six and a half tons,  and will most likely come crashing down through the atmosphere late today or early tomorrow.

Since seventy five percent of the earth is covered in water chances are it will land in water. According to NASA the odds that someone somewhere will get hurt is just 1 in 3200. So far, there has not been any reports regard of any injuries of human caused by falling space debris nor any serious property damage.

An approximated 26 pieces of debris will probably survive the fiery plunge and slam down to Earth. The biggest piece may be as much as 300 pounds. However, scientists in the space agency say it is impossible to precisely determine where the satellite will crash and where those debris will fall.

For more information on the updates; http://earthsky.org/space/where-will-nasas-uars-satellite-land

Update 09/24/2011: The 6-ton UARS satellite — the biggest piece of space debris to fall from the sky since Sky Lab in 1979 — fell back to Earth early Saturday morning. Debris is reported to have been found near Calgary, Canada.