By Snejana Farberov, Alex Greig and Alexandra Klausner PUBLISHED: 23:30 EST, 10 November 2013 | UPDATED: 03:23 EST, 11 November 2013 A 2,000lb satellite fell through the Earth's atmosphere today at around 7pm EST. According to the European Space Agency, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) burned up when going through the Earth's atmosphere. Remaining debris could have fallen anywhere along a path through East Asia and the Western Pacific to Antarctica. 'The most probable impact ground swath largely runs over ocean and polar regions, as well as uninhabited areas of Australia,' the space agency noted on its website earlier today.
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The satellite broke through Earth's atmosphere at around 7pm tonight
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Most of the space-craft burnt up, but surviving debris is somewhere on the Earth's surface
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Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, was launched in 2009 to map variations in Earth's gravity
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GOCE ran out of xenon fuel October 21 and has been losing altitude since
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Scientists do not know the exact location but it was last seen flying over Antarctica
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