India, Nov. 2 -- Nasa's Swift Observatory, a 22-year-old space telescope that a rescue mission failed to save, is expected to fall back into Earth's atmosphere on or around Friday, November 6, and India is among the regions under the broad band where any surviving pieces could come down.

Parts of Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America are also within the predicted zone, according to the Associated Press. Most of the 1.4-tonne telescope is expected to burn up as it falls, but a handful of pieces made of tungsten, a metal denser than lead, and some mirror parts could survive the heat, Brad Cenko, Swift's principal investigator at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, told AP. Fragments that do survive are most likel...