A defunct satellite entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 12:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday, September 24, NASA said Tuesday in a statement.

The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California determined NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) entered the atmosphere at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east longitude over the Pacific Ocean.

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