Chinese rocket falls back to Earth in uncontrolled fall, largest in 3 decades
A 100-foot-long Chinese rocket on Monday took an uncontrolled plunge back into the atmosphere, becoming the largest piece of space debris to fall uncontrolled to Earth in three decades, said Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. The "Long March-5B" reportedly weighed 17,800 kilograms. It passed directly over Hollywood and New York City's Central Park before crash-landing in the Atlantic Ocean.