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A failed Russian Mars probe stranded above the Earth since November will plunge to its doom this weekend, likely Sunday.
Experts expect the 11 tons of fuel onboard to explode high in the atmosphere as friction eats through the craft’s aluminum tanks.
But predicting when and where space objects will fall is tricky. Solar flares and other “space weather” expand and contract the Earth’s atmosphere, altering the drag on falling objects.
That means the spacecraft, called Phobos-Grunt, could plummet back to Earth over North America, South America, Europe, Asia or Australia.
