Stubborn satellite expected to fall soon; U.S. mostly out of crash zone

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Cape Canaveral- A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death plunge. The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early Saturday, putting Canada, Africa and Australia in the potential crosshairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state. "It just doesn't want to come down," said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center..