China’s first space station re-entered the atmosphere late Sunday over the South Pacific, and while most of it burnt up in the sky, around 1,500 pounds apparently crashed into the ocean.
“Small bits definitely will have made it to the surface,” Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at Australian National University told Reuters. Tucker estimates that about 90 percent of the station would have burned up, but the remaining 10 percent would weigh between 1,543 and 1,764 lbs.