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a Chinese Space Station could re-enter Earth's atmosphere on April 1st and no this isn't a joke China's tiangong one space station launched in 2011 and the plan was to complete a controlled reentry over an unpopulated section of the South Pacific when it's time was up in 2016 though reports surfaced the spacecraft was malfunctioning and new projections from the European Space Agency predict an uncontrolled re-entry between March 31st UTC and the early hours of April 2nd here's the wild part the ESA also says it can't really predict when or where tiangong 1 will burn up or if parts of the space station will make its way through our atmosphere and fall on to the ground its orbit covers a huge part of populated earth though scientists think the edges of tiangong once orbit would be more likely for re-entry since it spends more time in those zones we'll know about a day in advance when the craft is headed back to earth but Jay Milosh a professor of Earth's atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University said quote in terms of where it will land a few hours of uncertainty spans a lot of territory that could be the difference between landing and chile and the middle of the Pacific unquote that's not scary at all it's really scary so where do you think tiangong 1 will reenter the atmosphere drop your dresses down in the comments until we know more exact information we'll be keeping our eye on the skies here at cnet.com I'm Ashley ask Ewa be good humans