US is tracking China's rocket about to fall on earth, but Twitterati can't keep calm

US is tracking China's rocket about to fall on earth, but Twitterati can't keep calm

FPJ Web DeskUpdated: Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 05:17 PM IST
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The US Department of Defence has said it is tracking the Chinese Long March 5B-rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend.

The Chinese rocket is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere around May 8 and US Space Command is tracking the rocket's trajectory amid concerns about where its debris may make an impact, CNN reported.

"US Space Command is aware of and tracking the location of the Chinese Long March 5B in space, but its exact entry point into the Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until within hours of its re-entry, which is expected around May 8," Pentagon's US Space Command said in a statement.

"Until then, the 18th Space Control Squadron will be offering daily updates to the rocket body's location on Space-track.org beginning May 4. USSPACECOM will provide additional information as it becomes available," it added.

The roughly 100-foot object is orbiting Earth every 90 minutes and zips past north of New York, Beijing and as far south as New Zealand, Fox News reported citing a space monitoring website.

The report said that despite the threat it is most likely to splash in one of the world's oceans or in an isolated area.

"I don't think people should take precautions. The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small -- not negligible, it could happen -- but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN.

However, the news has already gone viral and Twitterati are drawing their own conclusions. The optimists are hopeful, the normal are worried and the pessimists are hoping that it will fall on their head.

So, while we collectively wait for the object to fall on earth, here are some hilarious reactions to this piece of news to shake some of that anxiety off.

Here you go!

With inputs from ANI.

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