Streaks of light from the falling space station were sighted over Fiji early this morning about 1,800 miles east of Wellington, New Zealand. No injuries or collisions have been reported. Mir's impact area. The 21 U.S. albacore tuna fishing vessels had learned of their potentially perilous location only a week before and hadn't had time to clear out. But Robert Culp, an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado at Boulder had predicted it was highly unlikely anyone would encounter falling, smoldering space debris.
Debris comes in all the time.
Every once in a while, someone finds a piece that didn't burn up in their back yard. But it's a huge world. Only once in a billion times, someone may get hit. ABC News Internet Ventures.