Hey Michigan - Heads-up!

We pause our regularly-scheduled blogging with an important public service safety announcement. 

The staff here at The Platz has been diligently monitoring this situation and has an update. 




Launched in 2011, the 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 space laboratory also known as "Heavenly Palace" has been gradually decaying and - in 2016 - authorities admitted its functions were failing.  The abandoned module is currently tracking around the planet at an altitude of 150 miles at a speed of 18,000 mph. 

It is expected to descend towards the planet and burn through the atmosphere sometime in April.  As near as the scientists can figure they believe China's first space station will re-enter the atmosphere either in the last week of March or the first week of April.  The European Space Agency has a wider window and says the module will come down between March 24 and April 19. 

US research organization Aerospace Corporation revealed that parts of southern lower Michigan are among the regions that have the highest probability of being hit by falling debris.

I am going to go and dust-off my hard hat.