Earth to satellite: When will you hit — and where?

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA sci­en­tists are doing their best to tell us where a plum­met­ing six-ton satel­lite will fall later this week. It’s just that if they’re off a lit­tle bit, it could mean the dif­fer­ence between hit­ting Florida or land­ing on New York. Or, say, Iran or India. Pin­point­ing where and when hurtling space debris will strike is an impre­cise sci­ence. For now, sci­en­tists pre­dict the ear­li­est it will hit is Thurs­day U.S. time, the lat­est Sat­ur­day. The strike zone cov­ers most of Earth.