Hells Angels boss killed in shootout

Hells Angels boss killed in shootout

Hells Angels boss killed in shootout, The city canceled its part in an annual multi-city motorcycle festival on Saturday and neighboring Reno increased police patrol amid fears of retaliation over the shooting death of a prominent Hells Angels boss by a rival gang.

Tourist flight crash Nepal

Tourist flight crash Nepal

Tourist flight crash Nepal, Nepal tourist plane crashes near Kathmandu killing 19, A small plane has crashed in Nepal killing all 19 people on board, officials say.The Buddha Air plane was carrying 16 tourists to view Mount Everest and other peaks and was returning to the Nepalese capital.

Diana Nyad's Jellyfish

Diana Nyad's Jellyfish 

Diana Nyad's Jellyfish, Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is continuing her third bid to swim from Cuba to Florida despite suffering the effects of multiple Portuguese man o' war stings received only a couple of hours into the attempt.

Liposuction may lower heart disease risk

Liposuction may lower heart disease risk

Liposuction may lower heart disease risk, A new study suggests that liposuction — which plastic surgeons often use to sculpt the bodies of people who aren’t extremely overweight — can lower levels of a type of blood fat called triglycerides.

Thomas McCulloch axe

Thomas McCulloch axe

Thomas McCulloch axe, Thomas McCulloch, convicted of triple murders has been handed the axe again outside his prison walls. This time though, the 63-year-old is not going to chop people but trees. He was among a group of people who were sent to a nature reserve to clear a pathway.A source at the prison doesn’t believe it was such a good idea to hand the axe back to a person like McCulloch. Newspapers quoted the source as saying that, “He may be old now but there is evidence he is still a very dangerous man. I don’t think it’s a good idea to let a murderer like McCulloch near sharp implements like axes.”

In 1976, McCulloch and another accomplice killed a police officer, a nurse and a patient when they went on a rampage at the State Hospital, Carstairs, South Lanarks. The other accomplice was the gay partner of McCulloch named Robert Mone.

McCulloch was given a life prison sentence for his crimes. He has been in jail for more than 40 years and officials seem to have relaxed the hold on him recently. For the first time his he was jailed, he was allowed outside his prison walls.

Source: thaindian

Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed

Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed

Burglar caught after falling asleep on bed, Burglar caught after drinking victim's wine and falling asleep. A burglar was caught after drinking a bottle of his victim's wine and falling asleep on the sofa instead of making his getaway, a court has heard.

Michael Dwyer, 44, broke in through a window of a basement flat in Cambridge before stuffing several pillow cases with DVDs, CDs and electrical items.

Unemployed Dwyer, who had already been drinking, then spotted a bottle of red wine and settled down on the sofa to drink it.

But he fell asleep until he was discovered with the empty bottle by his feet the next day by the homeowner returning from work.

The victim was still unable to wake up Dwyer and called police, who arrested him at the scene.

Dwyer admitted burglary following the raid on September 22 at Cambridge Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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Paul Brown, prosecuting, said Dwyer claimed he had broken into the house to use the lavatory.

He said: "Mr Dwyer was found sleeping on the sofa with a bottle of wine next to his feet.

"The victim informed police who then arrested Dwyer. He claimed that he didn't remember putting the items in the pillowcase and said he had a serious alcohol problem."

Monica Lentin, defending, said Dwyer had shown genuine remorse for his crime.

She said: "He is really trying to get help for his alcohol problems. This is the first time he has actually committed a burglary and it is out of character."

Magistrates adjourned sentencing until October 27 and requested a pre-sentence report be prepared by the probation service looking into Mr Dwyer's alcohol addiction.

Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed

Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed

Anne Mozingo Wife sues after husband's brain is removed, The practices of a prestigious medical research institute that studies schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are on trial in Maine, where the organization collected at least 99 brains from organ donors.

Anne Mozingo, of York, contends that the Stanley Medical Research Institute and a man working on its behalf removed her late husband’s entire brain without her consent after he died of a brain aneurism in 2000. She said she agreed to donate only small brain tissue samples.

Mozingo learned nearly five years after her husband’s death that his entire brain – along with its lining, plus his liver, spleen and pituitary gland – had been removed and sent to the institute. She filed suit in 2005 against the Bethesda, Md., institute and its Maine representative, Matthew Cyr.

Her claims include infliction of emotional distress, fraud and negligent misrepresentation. After Mozingo learned that her husband’s entire brain had been removed, she suffered extreme emotional and mental distress and had nightmares in which her husband’s body was being mutilated, she said in court documents.

The lawsuit accused the defendants of acting “beyond all possible bounds of decency.”

The institute and Cyr, of Bucksport, deny any wrongdoing. The institute has repeatedly said over the years that it never knowingly obtained brains without full consent from next of kin.

From the mid-1990s to 2003, Stanley Medical Research Institute used a network of “brain harvesters” in Maine and three other states to collect hundreds of brains for use in the study of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The brains were packed in dry ice and shipped by FedEx to the institute.

Cyr, who also worked for the Maine Medical Examiner’s Office, was paid more than $150,000 to collect brains and other organs from at least 99 bodies from 1999 to 2003, according to court documents.

Mozingo’s lawsuit is one of more than a dozen that were filed against the institute by Maine families alleging that their relatives’ full brains were removed without their consent.

Most of the complaints have been settled out of court, but three have gone to trial.

The first one to go resulted in a mistrial in January 2010 after the plaintiff testified that he chose to put the case before a jury because he didn’t want to settle. The judge ruled the statement implied to jurors that the defendant was offered a financial settlement to avoid a trial.

A second case went to trial last fall, with the jury siding with Stanley, Cyr and the institute’s former executive director, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey.

Mozingo’s case began this week in York County Superior Court.

On the first day of the trial, her attorney held up a model of brain as a prop while giving his opening statement. Mozingo told jurors that she was misled and betrayed during a time of grieving and stress. The institute’s lawyers questioned her reliance on notes to recount her conversation with Cyr after her husband died.

Mozingo’s lawyer, Thomas Douglas, declined to comment on the case because court proceedings were ongoing. Philip Coffin, who represents the institute, also declined to comment.

Mozingo’s trial is expected to conclude Friday or Monday, but it likely won’t be the final court case.

Portland attorney John Campbell said he expects his client, Ray Martin, of Old Orchard Beach, to have his day in court next spring. Martin’s case was the one that ended in a mistrial, and Campbell said it’s the last remaining case in Maine.

“Mr. Martin feels very strongly about going back to trial,” the attorney said.

No Child Left behind

No Child Left behind

No Child Left behind, President Obama is poised to broaden federal influence in local schools by scrapping key elements of No Child Left Behind, the Bush administration’s signature education law, and substituting his own brand of school reform.The move will bypass Congress, drawing fire from Republicans on Capitol Hill and some in the educational establishment but winning applause from governors across the country struggling to meet the demands of the nine-year-old law.
On Friday, Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are scheduled to detail plans to waive some of the law’s toughest requirements, including that schools ensure that every student be proficient in math and reading by 2014 or risk escalating sanctions.

In exchange for relief, the administration will require a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that could include the expansion of charter schools, linking teacher evaluation to student performance and upgrading academic standards. As many as 45 states are expected to seek waivers.

For many students, the most tangible impact could be what won’t happen. They won’t see half their teachers fired, their principal removed or school shut down because some students failed to test at grade level — all potential consequences under the law.

“It’s a momentous development,” said Jack Jennings, president of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy. The White House is essentially rewriting the law, he said.

Duncan said the administration has no other choice, driven by mounting pressures on schools caused by the law and no clear sign that Congress will fix its flaws. Lawmakers have been trying for four years.

“I feel compelled to do this,” Duncan said as he rode a bus two weeks ago to tour schools in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, among other states. “My absolute preference is for Congress to fix it for the entire country. But there’s a level of dysfunction in Congress that’s paralyzing. And we’re getting to the point that this law is holding back innovation, holding back progress. We need to unleash that. We need to get out of the way.”

For Duncan, one of the most visible members of Obama’s Cabinet, the move is likely to cement his reputation as arguably the most powerful education secretary in the department’s history.

Duncan already has propelled school systems across the country to make far-reaching changes by awarding a record $8 billion, provided by the economic stimulus package, to states and districts that embraced Obama’s agenda.

Even states that didn’t win money through the best-known of those programs, called Race to the Top, changed policies and laws to compete for the funds.

Duncan “walked into office and was handed a big pot of money and very few congressional restrictions,” Jennings said. “Congress went off and got into health reform, the budget, all these other issues that sucked up their attention. He was left alone with his money and took advantage of the opportunity. Now he’s got another opportunity.”

Some say the administration is reaching too far.

Source: washingtonpost

Wanda Sykes Cancer

Wanda Sykes Cancer

Wanda Sykes Cancer, Wanda Sykes' comedic streak shined through the very serious issue of breast cancer during a recent visit to The Ellen DeGeneres show. Find out what led the mother of twins to opt for a double mastectomy -- and why she's not signing on to be a cancer poster child.Wanda Sykes is using humor to make the best of a scary situation. The 47-year-old comedian has revealed to Elle DeGeneres that she's not only had breast cancer, but undergone a double mastectomy.

Wanda Sykes, whose visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show will air Monday, is lucky to be alive and in good health. The mother of two with wife Alex tells Ellen, "I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary. It is. I found it through ... I was having a breast reduction, actually."

"I had real big boobs and I just got tired of knocking over stuff," Wanda Sykes joked as the audience laughed. "Every time I eat -- oh lord -- I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore so it was time to have a reduction."

It turns out that breast reduction may have saved Wanda's life. She continued, "It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS [ductal carcinoma in situ] in my left breast -- I was very, very lucky because [at the time, it was] basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky."

Of the decision to undergo a double mastectomy Wanda Sykes explained, "I had the choice of, you can go back every three months and get it checked. Have a mammogram, MRI every three months just to see what it's doing. But, I'm not good at keeping on top of stuff. I'm sure I'm overdue for an oil change and a teeth cleaning already."

Happily knowing she now has "zero chance" of having breast cancer again Wanda Sykes struggled to decide if she should speak publicly about her ordeal. "I was like I don't know, should I talk about it or what. How many things could I have? I'm black, then lesbian. I can't be the poster child for everything," she said, laughing.

"At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade, we get a float, it's a party," the mother of 2-year-old twins added. "I was real hesitant about doing this, because I hate walking. I got a lot of [cancer] walks coming up."

Best wishes to Wanda Sykes for continued good health!

Be sure to watch The Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday for more from Wanda Syke on breast cancer and her double mastectomy.

Source: sheknows

Spontaneous combustion kills man?

Spontaneous combustion kills man?

Spontaneous combustion kills man? A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled. West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLoughlin said it was the first time in 25 years of investigating deaths that he had recorded such a verdict.Michael Faherty, 76, died at his home at Clareview Park, Ballybane, Galway on 22 December 2010. Such incidents are extremely rare.

Deaths attributed by some to "spontaneous combustion" occur when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition.

Typically police or fire investigators find burned corpses but no burned furniture.

An inquest in Galway on Thursday heard how investigators had been baffled as to the cause of Mr Faherty's death.

Forensic experts found that a fire in the fireplace of the sitting room where the badly burnt body was found, had not been the cause of the blaze that killed Mr Faherty.

The court was told that no trace of an accelerant had been found and there had been nothing to suggest foul play.

The court heard Mr Faherty had been found lying on his back with his head closest to an open fireplace.

The fire had been confined to the sitting room. The only damage was to the body, which was totally burnt, the ceiling above him and the floor underneath him.

Dr McLoughlin said he had consulted medical textbooks and carried out other research in an attempt to find an explanation.

He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney.

"This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation," he said.

Read more: bbc

Mike Tyson $300 million

Mike Tyson $300 million

Mike Tyson $300 million, Who is this famous boxer who one the title in the WBC, WBA and IBF? Mike Tyson was once the most famous and successful boxer in the world. Mike was the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old. but his life was not allways easy.


This Mike Tyson biography shows the becoming of the fighting machine Mike Tyson until the downfall of his carreer and personal life. In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, for which he served three years in prison. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite receiving over US$30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career. Mike Tyson retired from competitive boxing in 2005 after two consecutive knockout losses to Danny Williams and Kevin McBride.

Match abandoned in Uruguay after linesman is hit with a roll of paper

Match abandoned in Uruguay after linesman is hit with a roll of paper, Linesman Hit On The Head By Roll Of Paper During Nacional vs Universidad de Chile Copa Sudamericana Match. Nacional’s match at home to Universidad de Chile in the Copa Sudamericana was abandoned after a linesman was struck by an object thrown from the crowd.
Universidad de Chile were dominating the game at the Parque Central stadium on Wednesday, leading 2-0, when one of the linesmen was hit in the 47th minute by a roll of paper, which Uruguayan media suggested came from a cash register.

The official was knocked to the ground and received treatment for several minutes before the referee called the match off.

The South American Football Confederation (CSF) said that it would meet later in the week to decide on the outcome. Universidad won the first leg 1-0.

Baby born on Philippine Airlines flight has no nationality

Baby born on Philippine Airlines flight has no nationality 

Baby born on Philippine Airlines flight has no nationality, Officials were trying Tuesday to ascertain the nationality of a baby born mid-flight, apparently while over international waters, in a passenger jet heading from the Philippines to the U.S.Pregnant Philippines woman Aida Alamillo, 41, was on Philippine Airlines Flight 104 from Manila on Monday when she began to feel nauseous and realized she was in labor, earlier than expected.

A short time later, about four hours out of San Francisco and at 30,000 feet, she gave birth to a healthy, six-pound boy.

Flight attendants had taken her to a private spot in the business class cabin and summoned for help from passengers -- resulting in three nurses volunteering to help, NBC Bay Area reported. The rest of the travelers burst into applause on hearing the baby had been born.

"I didn't expect I would have a baby there ... it just happened," she said, according to NBC Bay Area, explaining that she had been given permission by her doctor to fly despite being due on Sept. 28.

Alamillo was on her way to Massachusetts at the time, with a visa for travel to the U.S.

Her sister Leoni Bauermeister, who lives in Beverly, Mass., told MyFoxBoston.com Alamillo was immigrating to the state with her three other children -- and hoped to have her fourth child there so it would automatically become a U.S. citizen.

According to Jennifer Vaughn, from the Center for Immigration Studies, if a child is born over open ocean it is generally considered a citizen of the country where the parent has legal citizenship in. If a baby is born in American airspace it is a U.S. citizen.

Alamillo and her son were Tuesday at a hospital in San Francisco but could be leaving by Thursday to head to Massachusetts. NBC Bay Area said she named the child Kevin Raymar Francis Domingo -- with "Francis" a salute to his surprise arrival on the way to San Francisco.

Source: foxnews

Halle Berry breaks foot in Spain

Halle Berry breaks foot in Spain

 Halle Berry breaks foot in Spain, The actress was at the house where she is staying while making the sci-fi movie when she misstepped, causing her njury.Sources told website TMZ she was taken to hospital where he foot was put in a cast. She later left the medical facility in a wheelchair. The film's directors, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, are overcoming the immediate problem of shooting Halle's scenes - in which she plays one of few remaining survivors in a post apocalyptic world - by filming her from the waist up, using a stunt double, or simply shooting other scenes in which she is not required.

Speaking of the film, Tom has promised it will be of an epic proportion, saying: ''The big-scale adult movie is a dying species. Where are the ''2001s'' and the ''Lawrence of Arabias''?''

''You go to all these studios, and you see their framed photographs, the films they're so proud of, and you wonder: 'Where are the pictures this year that they want blown up with a nice expensive frame around it?'''

Other A-list stars to appear in the big budget adaptation of the novel by David Mitchell include Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving.

Halle is not the only star to have been hurt in an accident in recent weeks. ''True Blood'' actress Evan Rachel Wood lost a tooth after being hit in the face by an erratic dancer at a Parisian nightclub, where she was celebrating her 24th birthday earlier this month.

Source: BANG Showbiz

Sanra Bullock Ryan Reynolds wedding

Sanra Bullock Ryan Reynolds wedding

 Sanra Bullock Ryan Reynolds wedding, Actors Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are reportedly planning a secret 'low-key' wedding.Bullock and Reynolds are said to have recently vacationed in Wyoming and according to a source, the two discussed the idea of marriage.

'Ryan told her he was ready to tie the knot whenever she wants. And after seeing how quickly she's bonded with baby Louis, she decided she's ready to pull the trigger too,' contactmusic.com quoted a source as saying.

'So they started discussing the logistics of pulling off a low-key, barefoot wedding that would reflect their laid-back lifestyle,' the source added.

Baldwin and Malkin

Baldwin and Malkin 

 Baldwin and Malkin, Alec Baldwin’s Twitter War With Michelle Malkin: ‘Davis Is Dead Does That Make You Happier?’, Last night was a raw one on twitter for those following the Troy Davis case, not least of all for Alec Baldwin, who holds court over a notoriously prolific account, and had spent much of the early evening spewing tweets about the execution. His busy, and at times opinionated, stream eventually caught the attention of conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who had been keeping tabs on the case herself. Things devolved quickly from there.
Not exactly a fan, Malkin taunted the “Hollyweirdo,” wondering when he would tweet “I am Troy Davis” in solidarity with a man she believes to be guilty.

Baldwin didn’t take kindly to her mocking, and engaged her, first asking if Davis’s death will “make you happier,” to which she relied simply with the hashtag: #RIPMARKMACPHAIL. Lines were drawn:

This is when things devolved into a nasty battle, fought mostly by their large armies of twitter followers. Baldwin called upon his fans to “go all town hall on” Malkin, and to tweet at her asking if she feels safer with Davis dead:

Baldwin’s nearly 375,000 followers heeded his call, sending a lot of nasty tweets in Malkin’s direction. Poised for “Attaaaaaack Waaaaaaaaaaatch!”, Malkin re-tweeted many in defense, or “for the public record,” or maybe for the attention.

It’s a shame that things had to devolve to name calling, racial slurs, anonymous threats, and ad hominem attacks on a night that needed no more victims. #RIPTroyDavis #RIPMarkMacphail

h/t The Right Scoop

Source: mediaite

Analyst on yahoo sale

Analyst on yahoo sale

Analyst on yahoo sale, Shares of Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc. climbed Monday afternoon and an analyst raised sales projections for the company's newly launched antibiotic.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration approved Dificid tablets to treat Clostridium difficile, an intestinal infection that usually affects older patients and can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to potentially life-threatening inflammation of the colon. It afflicts more than 700,000 U.S. patients each year and can sometimes prove fatal.San Diego-based Optimer's twice-a-day tablet is the first new drug approved for the infection in nearly 25 years, according to the company. Dificid is the first FDA-approved product for Optimer, which has focused on developing antibiotics since its founding in 1998.

Cubist Pharmaceuticals will help sell the drug in the U.S. under a partnership with Optimer. Astellas Pharma will market the drug in Europe and other countries abroad.

THE ANALYSIS: JMP Securities analyst Liisa A. Bayko said in a research note she is raising Dificid revenue estimates for 2011 to $14.8 million from $9.8 million and also is raising estimates for the third and fourth quarters.

The analyst said she believes the addition of Dificid to hospital formularies should be relatively easy and the attributes of the drug and marketing approach for it "should resonate well with physicians and administrators alike."

Bayko said she came to this conclusion after surveys of infectious disease specialists and interviews with hospital administrators, among other research.

SHARE ACTION: Up 3.4 percent, or 41 cents, to $12.34 in afternoon trading while broader trading indexes fell more than 1 percent.

Emily Deschanel Has Her First Baby

Emily Deschanel Has Her First Baby, The Deschanel family just got a little bigger: "Bones" star Emily Deschanel and her husband, David Hornsby, who plays the hilariously creepy Rickety Cricket on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," welcomed a son, Henry Hornsby, on Wednesday.Emily recently dished about her impending mommyhood to Fit Pregnancy, joking that "seeing my belly move is pretty amazing; it's like in the movie 'Alien.'" Her sister, Zooey, meanwhile, is "super excited to be an aunt.

1985 bears and white house

1985 bears and white house, “Better late than never” must be on the lips of the members of the 1985 Bears team. They are finally getting the acknowledgement and the honor that was long due to them. More than two decades after they blazed the NFL with a 15-1 season and then managed to win the Super Bowl XX in classic style, they have now been invited to the White House. They are going to be honored for their trail-blazing feat that they managed to pull off in 1986.The 1985 Chicago Bears are all set to go to the White House on the 7th of October for a ceremony in which they would be honored. Many of the sports personalities and sports analysts are of the strong opinion that the 1985 Chicago Bears team was perhaps the greatest team of all time.

After their remarkable victory they were supposed to be honored in the White House but it never happened unfortunately due to the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion that took place on the 28th of January 1986. All the crew members of the space shuttle lost their lives and thus all ceremonies were postponed for a while.

Source: thaindian

Nasa Satellite Falling

Nasa Satellite Falling

Nasa Satellite Falling, NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.The defunct bus-size spacecraft is NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS), which launched in 1991 and was shut down in 2005 after completing its mission. The satellite was expected to fall to Earth sometime this year, with experts initially pegging a weeks-long window between late September and early October, then narrowing it to the last week of this month.

That window, NASA now says, has been trimmed to just three days.

"Re-entry is expected Sept. 23, plus or minus a day. The re-entry of UARS is advancing because of a sharp increase in solar activity since the beginning of this week," NASA officials wrote in a status update today (Sept. 16). The projection is a day earlier than a previous forecast released by NASA yesterday.

NASA spokeswoman Beth Dickey confirmed with SPACE.com earlier today that the reason UARS is expected to fall early in its re-entry window is because of the sharp uptick in solar activity. Solar effects from the sun can create an extra drag on satellites in space because they can heat the Earth's atmosphere, causing it to expand, agency officials have said. [Photos: Space Debris & Cleanup Concepts]

Where will UARS fall?
But exactly where the UARS spacecraft will fall is still unknown.

NASA expects at least 26 large pieces of the massive satellite to survive the scorching temperatures of re-entry and reach Earth's surface. Titanium pieces and onboard tanks could be among that debris, but the UARS satellite carries no toxic propellant (NASA used up all the fuel in 2005).

The debris is expected to fall over a swath of Earth about 500 miles (804 kilometers) long, NASA officials said.

There is a 1-in-3,200 chance of satellite debris hitting a person on the ground, odds that NASA says are extremely remote. Outside experts agree.

"Look at how much of Earth is covered with water," Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com this week. "There's a really good chance it's going to go straight into the ocean."

Constant satellite watch
NASA officials expect the UARS satellite to fall over a region somewhere between the latitudes of northern Canada and southern South America, which leaves a vast swath of the world open as a possible re-entry point. About 75 percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water, which makes an ocean splashdown likely, NASA and experts have said.

NASA and the Joint Space Operations Center of U.S. Strategic Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., are keeping a close watch on the falling satellite, but will only be able to pinpoint its actual crash zone to within about 6,000 miles (10,000 km) about two hours before re-entry.

As of Thursday, the UARS satellite was flying in an orbit of between 143 and 158 miles (230 to 255 km) above Earth. That orbit is dropping lower each day, NASA officials said. [Infographic: NASA's Falling UARS Satellite Explained]

NASA has advised the public not to touch any debris that may reach the surface, should it be discovered. Instead, the space agency says that anyone who finds satellite debris should contact their local law enforcement agency.

The $750 million UARS mission was designed to measure ozone and other chemical compounds found in Earth's ozone layer in order to better understand how the upper atmosphere affects our planet. It also recorded wind speeds and temperatures in the stratosphere, as well as the energy Earth received from the sun.

Source: yahoo