Space Station Trash Burns Up Over South Pacific

A piece of space trash the size of a refrigerator plunged into the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday to burn up over the southern Pacific Ocean, more than a year after an astronaut tossed it off the International Space Station, NASA officials said today.  Space station program manager Mike Suffredini told reporters the orbital trash, a 1,400-pound (635-kg) tank of toxic ammonia coolant, slammed into the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of about 50 miles (80 km) as it flew above the ocean just south of Tasmania.  [Not actual photograph of space debris mentioned in article.]

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