Awaiting Mir's Crash Down Under
SYDNEY, Australia -- When the decrepit Russian space station Mir crashes to Earth next month, it'll be aimed like a basketball at a huge hoop of lonely ocean between New Zealand and Chile. Minutes after de-orbiting, it will likely smash into the Southern Ocean's waves with amazing force, sinking without a trace in a burial at sea. This, of course, assumes everything goes according to plan.

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