A satellite weighing as much as five tons is orbiting Earth out of control, and will likely crash into North America somewhere, sometime in late February or early March.
The U. S. Air Force is watching the situation and making plans to respond to a crash, but working out exactly where the satellite will hit will have to wait untl the thing actually re-enters the atmosphere. Because of the size of the satellite, the USAF is betting some of it will reach the ground, as opposed to burning up in the atmosphere, but how much might survive is unclear.
The satellite is a spy satellite that never spied. Shortly after reaching orbit, the onboard central computer malfunctioned, and the satellite has been useless.
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