Topic: Space junk

Why Russia's Mars Probe Failed; Lady Gaga Reminds Madonna of Someone

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Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: the Phobos-Grunt space probe is hurtling towards earth for a Sunday arrival, Madonna is going to criticize Lady Gaga on 20/20 tonight, and Jimmy Fallon uses Tebowmania as an excuse to sing like David Bowie.

By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 19, 2011

Now We Have to Watch Out for Falling German Space Junk

Just when we thought we had dodged NASA's falling satellite, the German space agency is saying that there's a 1-in-2000 chance that debris from its 21-year-old satellite will hit someone this weekend. 

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