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Scientists have earmarked a remote area of the South Pacific where bits of Europe's space freighter may crash when it is destroyed in a suicide plunge tomorrow.
The "entry zone" is a strip 2700km long by 200km wide, Mike Steinkopf, of European Space Agency mission control in France, said.
About 100 parts of the 13.5-tonne automated transfer vehicle may survive the heat and stress of re-entry.
The zone is located 2500km east of New Zealand, 6000km west of Chile and 2500km south of the Easter Islands.
