Scientists from the United States and Europe are looking into an unconfirmed report that the German Satellite ROSAT impacted Earth in Turkey, causing a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Seismic data suggests that the Turkey earthquake coincides with the scheduled crash landing of ROSAT. There was a very good probability that a 1.7 ton piece of ROSAT would survive the reentry and could crash on Earth within the time frame given by Germany.

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