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[Bud Brewster]

Chinese rocket will fall to Earth this weekend

By Elizabeth Howell

A huge Chinese Long March 5B rocket booster is falling back to Earth in an uncontrolled descent, with reentry currently expected on early Sunday (May 9), and you can track its fall on one of several websites.

The 23-ton (21 metric tons) core stage likely will fall into an uninhabited area, given that 70% of Earth's surface is covered by ocean. That said, entities around the world are keeping an eye out just in case — and providing regular updates online.

As of early Saturday, the falling rocket booster was forecast to reenter Earth's atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean on Sunday (May 9) at about 12:19 a.m. EDT (0419 GMT), according to the Aerospace Corp., which is tracking the object.

We'll keep you posted here at Space.com, but here are some of the sources you can look at yourself in the coming days.

__ Rocket debris expected to crash into Earth soon


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