Archive: https://archive.today/9LPlx From the post: >>A dead Soviet satellite will soon make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere, sparking concerns as scientists do not know where it will land. The Kosmos 482 spacecraft launched in 1972 carrying a probe that was supposed to detach and fly all the way to Venus. But due to an engine malfunction, the spacecraft failed to escape Earth's gravitational pull and has been orbiting our planet for the last 50 years. Scientists who have been tracking Kosmos 482's orbital height say it has been gradually spiraling lower and lower, and should reenter the atmosphere sometime between May 8 and 11. Researchers at one satellite tracking station in the Netherlands have pinpointed a most likely date of May 10.