A piece of space station trash the size of a refrigerator is poised to plunge through the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday, more than a year after an astronaut tossed it overboard.
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Wonder if the astronaut will be fined for littering?
As long as it doesn't hit Obama, I'm cool with it.
Zen, that is exactly the first thing I thought of. N kidding.