Long, Slow Burn

Yawn.  CNN (and every other news outlet) appears to be trying to create news and fear and angst.  Some US military satellite has lost power sometime in the last year or so, and is going to fall to Earth.  “Strike” is the term that CNN uses.

Here’s my prediction: most all of it will burn up on entry.  What is left will hit somewhere on Earth and it will be very difficult for the scientists to tell us where it actually hit.

Yes, something may fall on populated areas.  It’s very unlikely but it may happen.  Damage may occur.
I think my prediction is going to be much closer to what happens, that what CNN is leading us to believe.  Yawn.