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Space station 'to emit highly toxic However, the mystery over what is vapours when it crashes to earth' inside the space station means mean that Estimating when or where the object will fall is so difficult because Chinese authorities have revealed very little about its fall. It's also difficult to know how it will survive its desc descent, and what will happen when it's over, since western experts don't even it's not possible to know what kind of danger it would pose once it had landed on the ground. "For your safety, do not touch any debris you may find on the ground nor inhale vapours it may emit," experts wrote. refer:: www.independent.co.uk know what the space station is made WATCH IT out of or what it is carrying. Experts at the US-funded funded Aerospace Corporation warned last week that some debris could survive the descent to the Earth and land on the ground. "“If this should happen, any surviving debris would fall within a region that is a few https://www.independent.co. uk/life-style/gadgets style/gadgets-and- tech/news/tiangong tech/news/tiangong-1-space- station-satellite satellite-falling-to- earth-crash-when when-where- time-date-a8247196.html a8247196.html hundred kilometers in size,” they wrote. But they said the chance it would hit anyone was very unlikely indeed. "When considering the worst-case location, the probability that a specific person will be struck by Tiangong-1 1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot," they wrote. 19