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A Russian satellite came down in the pacific ocean near New Zealand Tuesday night and narrowly missed an airliner that was flying from Santiago, Chile to Auckland, New Zealand. The Russian space agency had warned New Zealand and surrounding areas that the satellite was coming down, but it wasn’t supposed to be coming down quite as soon as it did, or in the location it came down in.
The story here
A National Geographic article on space cleanup here