On Saturday evening, sometime between 9:45 and 10:15 P.M., a German research satelite was supposed to have crashed down somewhere near Southeast Asia. Early reports had the satelite possibly falling on land, however no report has been filed yet about such a matter. This is leading officials to believe that the satelite crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, east of Sri Lanka. The satelite was launched in Florida in 1990, and was retired in 1999. Of the original satelite, only about thirty pieces were supposed to break through the atmosphere, weighing a combined 1.87 tons. This is the second satelite to have come down to Earth in the past month. Earlier a U.S. satelite crashed down somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, leaving a five hundred mile wide area of debris.
By: Tyler Lundquist
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45007263/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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