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A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth, but don't panic

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Kosmos-482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 on a mission to land on Venus .

It was one of a series of missions to Venus , but this one became stranded in orbit around Earth after a rocket malfunction.

The spacecraft is expected to plunge through the atmosphere in the coming days .

Experts say the risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion .

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